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- From: mgflax@phoenix.princeton.edu (Marshall G. Flax)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: recent discussion of rape
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 03:31:54 GMT
- Organization: Princeton University
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- In article <1dpiqcINNoqh@agate.berkeley.edu> arosen@oregon.uoregon.edu (Ava Rosenblum) writes:
- >I would like to expand the discussion of rape to include emotional rape. These
- >are situations in which one person is lied to so that she WANTS to go to bed
- >with the man.
-
- I'm uncomfortable using the word "rape" in this context -- it muddies
- the water too much, and people will lose the point that *consent* should
- be a precise standard.
-
- >Such situations often occur with married men who persuade
- >themselves and the victim that he is falling in love and that he will likely
- >leave his wife for the victim. Ofcourse this can happen in reverse gender
- >situations, but it is more likely to occur with men as the perpetrators.
-
- I'm interested why you believe this.
-
- >Any time a lie is utilized to cause someone who would otherwise say 'no' to say
- >'yes', I believe this constitutes emotional rape, for it often emanates from a
- >sexist world view that divorces sex from the energy of the heart.
-
- Not everything that emanates from sexism is rape. I believe the
- situations you describe are better characterized as emotional fraud than
- emotional rape.
-
- marshall
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