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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: clothing; gender implications
Message-ID: <645@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 15:52:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 15:52:01 1985
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Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy)
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In article <236@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP writes:
>> Now, let's
>> play with figures.  1 in 4 women raped (I'm just taking this from what 
>> I have seen on here).  All the following is guesswork as to figures.
>> Say that each rapist has twenty victims.  This makes 1 in 80 men a
>> rapist.  This is assuming equal numbers of men and women, which I
>> realize is not the case, but it's close enough for wild guesswork.
>> 
>
>More likely (from what I have read) each rapist about 200 victims.  That
>would make 1 in 800 men a rapist.

Seriously? Where have you read this?  Can anyone else come up with some
figures on this?  Also, of convicted rapists, what is the average number
each has committed?  How does this compare?
>> 
>
>Not lucky --- you've been in places where a rapist is not likely to
>attempt a crime for fear of being caught or identified.  No one is
>claiming that provocative clothing causes the rapists to "lose control".
>It does seem likely that it may encourage a rapist to commit a rape
>if he doesn't think he will get caught.

Actually, I thought that that was the basis of the "provocative clothing"
question..."Oh, seeing her dressed that way just made me lose control"


                                           Muffy