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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape ? (was Re: Mysogynist
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:41:06 GMT
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- Eric Pepke (pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
- : Check folloups.
- :
- : In article <1jjru2INN3kb@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> eisrael@klingon.East.Sun.COM writes:
- : >The problem is that this isn't always a safe bet. I've heard more than one
- : >"authority" on rape (including the head of the Women's Rape Counseling Center
- : >in D.C., whose name unfortunately escapes me) claim that a woman who realizes
- : >in the morning that she probably didn't want to have sex (or wouldn't have if
- : >she'd thought about it some more) has been raped. What this amounts to is
- : >the ability to retroactively rescind consent.
- :
- : Yes, I have heard this claim as well. Fortunately, though, there is still a
- : distinction between laws which are on the books and the way activists want
- : laws to go. The laws of the states I have seen are a bit saner than this.
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- But are the people who actully operate those laws?
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- :
- : Unfortunately, though, the more people buy into these ideas the more likely
- : it is for the laws to be changed to accomodate them.
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- What can matter more is not how it is written, but how it is used!
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