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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Rape is violence, not sex"
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 12:49:07 EDT
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> >  ...
> >>   3. I'm sick...I need treatment, not punishment.
> 
> >I feel that if someone committed even as severe a crime as rape due to mental
> >illness, then that person should get psychiatric or psychological treatment,
> >not prison.
> 
> on TV (60 Minutes?) in which a rapist explained that he merely had high
> hormone levels (as substantiated by lab tests) and so couldn't help
> himself.
> 
> But to answer your basic point, the disease analogy may be helpful in
> dealing with inappropriate behavior, but I think that it has very little
> usefulness in courts of law.
> -- 
> Richard Mateosian

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I almost concur. Actually the best solution would be that if an aberation
exists which can/did/could cause a person to be a rapist then the treat 
ment should be 90 years in a padded room with no windows and no lights
and no anything accept a slot through which sustanance would be
dispenced.



jeanette l. zobjeck
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