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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Collected Communication 101
Message-ID: <371@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 12:00:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 12:00:55 1985
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References: <cmu-cs-e.401> <610@unc.UUCP> <rtech.563> <2@unc.UUCP>
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>In article <cmu-cs-e.401> rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty) writes:
>>> 	In order to be sexy, you must feel sexy.  However, you cannot
>>> 	feel sexy AND simultaneously feel terrified...
>
>In article <rtech.563> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>>	"Excitement and Fear are the same physical state.
>>It's your *attitude* that makes it feel one way or the other..."
>
>Why don't you try telling that to a rape victim -- that her fear
>was equivalent to sexual excitement, or would have been if only
>she had a better attitude.
>
>Sexual excitement and ordinary excitement are NOT AT ALL the same thing,
>physiologically.
>
>	Frank Silbermann

I have to lend my support to Frank in this.  The  above  sentiment  by
Dave  Brower  is  one of the biggest stumbling blocks our legal system
has to makeing progress in prosecuting and preventing rape today.
-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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