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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: "provocative" clothing
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 03:41:19 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?
> 	David Canzi

This is USENET, not The NOW Times.  The ``politically correct'' thing
seems to be the status quo, or perhaps a bit to the right of it.  Just
spend some time in net.politics.

I think you have a misunderstanding here.  Rape is not sex.  Rape is
a violation of a person's body.  It is violence, pure and simple.
A rapist might be sexually aroused by violence.  But this is not what
makes rape a crime.  The violence is.

Almost anything could be sexually arousing to some person or another.
There are criminals who are sexually aroused by murdering someone.  But
that does not make it ``sex'' to everyone else.  Nor does it make murder
a crime of sex.

The question isn't whether rape is arousing to the rapist.  The question
is: what is rape to society?  What is rape to me?  To you?  There is one
thing sure: to the victim, it is NOT sex.  To some, it is worse than
death.

Do you really want to call ``what motivates a rapist'' sex?  Is this
your idea of sex?  Do you think it should be *anybody's* idea of sex?

Then why do you persist in calling it ``sex''?  What the hell is wrong
with calling it violence?

		-Ed Hall
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