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- From: uunet!infmx!hartman@ncar.ucar.EDU (Robert Hartman)
- Subject: Re: Rape vs. Seduction
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:51:22 GMT
- References: <1debifINNocj@agate.berkeley.edu> <1dfpqgINN4ss@agate.berkeley.edu> <1dpiovINNoqd@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1dpiovINNoqd@agate.berkeley.edu> bickis@skmath3.pa.dec.com (M. Bickis) writes:
- >Comments on a discussion between uunet!infmx!hartman@ncar.UCAR.EDU
- >(Robert Hartman) and dwelch@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch). The
- >discussion was sparked by the following quotation submitted by
- >celeste%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Celeste):
- >
- > ... "If you don't submit, I don't know what I might do!"
-
- >It's best to stick with conventional definitions so that people will
- >know what you're talking about. The usual meaning of 'rape' implies
- >violence, or at least the serious threat of violence. I would not call
- >an incident 'rape' unless violence was present.
-
- Do you mean "serious," or do you mean "explicit?" If you mean
- "explicit," then the issue of date rape is more tidy. If the threat
- is implicit or inferred but still present, what then?
-
- >Robert:>I'm deadly serious. I'm asking you. Fits of pique aside, what _do_ you
- >>call it?
- >
- >There is a perfectly good word to denote the sorts of scenarios that
- >Robert et al. have been discussing: 'seduction'.
-
- Oh no. That's not seduction in my book. Seduction is using
- pleasure or promises of pleasure to get a person to comply with
- one's wishes. "I'm not leaving until you do, is certainly not
- that."
-
- >Dan:>>Change the scenario from a sexual context to, say, buying a car, the car
- >>>buyer being the Victim.
- >Robert:
- >>But this is more akin to the door-to-door salesman who just won't leave
- >>until you hand over your credit card. YOu can't walk out because the
- >>salesman is already in your _home._
- >
- >If we distinguish between armed robbers and unscrupulous salesmen, then
- >we should distinguish between rape and seduction.
-
- What about the robber who invades your house but doesn't really have a gun?
- Is that not still an invasion and a robbery?
-
- > ... In both cases the end
- >result is the same, but I think the methods have to be taken into account.
- >
- >Robert:>Perhaps we need a misdemeanor rape for
- >>cases in which no explicit threats of violence are used.
- >Perhaps the problem is that there is no law against seduction (to my
- knowledge). Maybe there ought to be.
-
- Hmmm. At this point I think we're mincing words. If you want to
- call it seduction and make it a misdemeanor, fine.
-
- -r
-
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