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- From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
- Subject: Re: Rape in any form ...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.151912.8975@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:19:12 GMT
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- In <SYNTH.92Jul28193941@deepthought.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:
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- >dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
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- >> Nor am I trying to. But by the same token, it's unscientific and
- >> irresponsible for you to contend that they are. You can draw your own
- >> personal conclusions, but I object to you stating them as fact.
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- >dc> I am specifically asking you WHAT makes you think the studies are
- >dc> invalid?
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- >I have *never* said the studies were INVALID. Jesus H. Christ! How
- >long are you going to run us in circles here??
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- >dc> You are taking scientific evidence and dismissing it with a wave
- >dc> of your hand ...
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- >BZZZT. Quite the contrary, I find the evidence plausible and
- >enlightening. Just what *is* the evidence? That rape fantasies and
- >other fantasies are common in both genders. That fantasies can heighten
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- >intimacy. That too much fantasy can distance you from your partner.
- >That separating fantasy from reality is important. And that the
- >scientific community does not know enough about fantasy to say whether
- >any certain kind is normal and another abnormal:
- ^^^^^^^
-
- You guys seem to be argueing semantics. How are you defining normal vs
- common?
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- Ken
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