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From: nap@druxo.UUCP (ParsonsNA)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re RAPE, etc.../ "understanding" horrible behavior and people
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 15:26:21 EDT
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Eric McColm:
> To coin a word:  "rapism", the disorder that both allows and compels certain
> men to rape.  Very little is known about it.

Really?!  So all of the programs in the various prisons that deal with
rapists as people who desire to dominate, and not with normal sexual urges,
are based on "very little" knowledge?  (It wouldn't surprise me, but upon
what is this assertion based?)

I can imagine non-raping men trying to understand rapists, and concluding
that provocation is a factor, because for them, if they *were* to rape, it
*would* be a factor.  After all, it is what motivates them to wish that
they *could* "have" a particular woman.

What I have never seen is any study or program of treatment of rapists that
includes the "problem" of provocation.  If "provocation *is* a problem, why
don't these studies and programs deal with it?  If I am the victim of
one-sided exposure, then will someone please inform me of the studies and
programs that I have missed?

Nancy Parsons
AT&T ISL