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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: ``they'' vs *US*
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 20:18:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 20:18:33 1985
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> about 20% wanted to rape. This was both a power-play (violence and not
> sex) and sexual desire. Rape, in this case, I feel, should
> be considered a crime of sex: they wanted to rape, to have sex, with
> a women that they desired. They were able to overpower the women in some
> form and because they were able to overpower/get away with it, they
> had sex with a women who had no desire to have sex with them.  The purpose
> of the rape was not to overpower and intimidate the women, it was to
> have intercourse with a women that would not otherwise have intercourse with
> them.

What makes you think a convicted rapist is the best judge of his own
motives?  If psychology has taught us anything, it's that the roots of
behavior are quite complex.