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- From: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,talk.rape
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape ? (was Re: Mysogynist
- Message-ID: <11786@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 02:27:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.205938.7956@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1jjru2INN3kb@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
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- Reply-To: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
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- Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them
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- 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.
-
- Unfortunately, though, the more people buy into these ideas the more likely
- it is for the laws to be changed to accomodate them.
-
- -EMP
-