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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: "provocative" clothing
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 13:57:11 EDT
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> 
> A lot of people are casually assuming that sex is not part of what
> motivates a rapist.  How do you know?  Do you have studies to back
> this belief up, or do you merely go along and believe because it's
> the politically correct thing to believe?
> 
> >All opinions are my own      (I think?)
> 
> 	David Canzi


I have no studies to believe.
I have no political sense of correctness to support my beliefs.
I am not a lot of people.

How do I know?


Have you ever been assaulted, physically or psychologically?
Do you know the feeling of having been USED?
Any woman who has been raped or assaulted will tell you that
for quite a while after the fact one of the things they feel is
that they are **soiled**.

	You dont know what it feels like to take a good hot shower
	step out, towel dry , get dressed only to start all over
	with another shower because you still feel dirty.

	It really does not matter to a woman what the motives of the
rapist are until long after the fact because she has to deal with
the trauma, mental and emotional, of believing in herself and building
up her own self-respect to a point where she can again feel human.

Rape is not a pretty topic for discussion, only an important one, but
rape to a rape victim becomes a central element in her life, sometimes,
many times, for the rest of her life. 

We can sit here at our keyboards and calmly or not discourse on the why's
and how's of rape till hell freezes over but a rape victim or an assault
victim will know from experience just how terrible the experience really
is, they may even be able to hide the self-loathing they feel from 
their friends and family but it still eats away at them from inside.

My own solution to the question of rape, rapists and appropriate punishments
and deterents has never been voiced on this net, by myself, although others
have said it for me.

Given the choices as presented here I know beyond any shadow of a doubt
that I could easily vote for rapists to be sentenced to the elctric chair
and an assailant or would-be rapist is entitled only to be completely
blown away preferably by his current  victim or by one of his previous
victims.

Jeanette L. Zobjeck
ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie

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These opinions are my own. I earned them and the right to express them and
by gum I'm going to.

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