From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Wed Jun 16 1999 - 10:05:56 MDT
At 03:19 PM 6/16/99 +1000, tim wrote:
>
>Apparently this "rape = power not sex" meme, though powerfully transmitted,
>has very little empirical support (read "seems wrong every time it is
>tested"). People use to power (rape) to have sex, not vice-versa.
>
How does one run an experiment involving rapists? Like most social
experiments, this cannot be truly scientific for ethical reasons. The
conclusions reached are actually opinions.
>While theoretically and perhaps even introspectively the power meme may
>appear valid, an abundance of sexually available people appears to reduce
>the frequency of rape. Ergo, the (admittedly monstrous and amoral) rapist
>chooses sex and is happy to get it without the bother of having to rape
>someone. This result seems incompatible with the "rape is not about sex"
>hypothesis.
Of course, if you give a serial rapist license to take sex anytime he wants
it, he will, in the absence of some mental condition that prevents pleasure
except during forced sex. I am assuming that the sexual partner is willing,
if not, again it's a rape.
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