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- From: emiddlec@mora.gac.edu (Eric Middlecamp)
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:57:15 GMT
- Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College
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- In article <16B5EA76A.ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU> ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU writes:
- >In article <C186HJ.HEz@hplntx.hpl.hp.com>
- >albert@hpl.hp.com (Joseph Albert) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- >>One reason the name may escape you is that there is no such thing as the
- >>"Women's Rape Counseling Center" in D.C. Yes, I know it sounds good to
- >>appeal to the ultimate spokesperson of those you wish to discredit, but
- >>a little more accuracy is called for. Your claims are simply not credible.
- >>Any authority on rape will tell you that if a woman is too drunk to have
- >>been able to give consent (eg passed out) then perpetrating intercourse
- >>on her body is rape.
- >>
- >>Joseph Albert
- >>albert@hplabs.hp.com
- >
- >I don't think that anyone will argue that if a woman is falling-down-drunk
- >or semiconscious she is still capable of giving consent. HOWEVER, the question
-
- Wrong. I don't think so.
-