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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Sexual Harassment (was Re: Simon you're no ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.114132.24504@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:41:32 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.042617.9925@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
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- >Is that your head in your ass or are you just constipated? Sex and rape
- >have NOTHING to do with one another. Rape is pure violence. The fact
- >that it includes sex organs has nothing to do with whether it is relatd to
- >"sex" in general....
-
- >If you think rape and sex are the same, you're dumber than a rock....
-
- Hi, Jack -- nice to hear from a fellow Panix user.
-
- Could you explain at more length? Maybe a couple of examples would help:
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- 1. Tom surprises Mary in her apartment and forces her to lie still
- while he takes a throat swab and a blood sample, and then takes her
- temperature with an oral fever thermometer. Mary struggles because
- she thinks Tom's crazy and doesn't know what he'll do.
-
- 2. Tom surprises Mary in her apartment and forces her to lie still
- while he rapes her. Mary struggles because she doesn't want to be
- raped.
-
- It seems to me that from the standpoint of pure physical violence
- there's not necessarily anything to distinguish the acts.
- Nonetheless, the latter is a more serious crime. It seems to me that
- the reason it is more serious is the sexual element -- the forced sex
- is felt to be a violation of Mary's personality in a way that the
- forced medical examination is not. Do you agree?
-
- If not, what's your explanation for the fact that rape is a
- separately-defined crime? I'm very much interested in your views,
- because you seem to devoted considerable thought to the matter.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." (Blake)
-