On Sun, 12 May 1996, Kergma wrote:

On Sat, 11 May 1996, PhoneyNT wrote:

just curious, remember, i'm just a male pig :P

what makes rape so bad that it would cause
"regression" in someone's mind any more than
2-ton umbrellas, spatulas, getting stabbed,
etc etc?

is there something i don't understand?

Yes.

According to most cultures, a woman's sexual organs are her own.  No-one 
elses.  *She* chooses who shares them.  For that choice to be taken away 
from her, by crude force, is an invasion of herself, her privacy, and 
perhaps her sanity.

Just to be a picky historian...according to MODERN culture, a woman's 
sexual organs are  her own...most cultures in the past gave control of 
them to her father, then her husband, and sometimes to some extent to the 
political leadership of the area (Droit de siegnur and all that rot)

Women having any real control over their sexuality is a fairly recent 
phenemomenon.

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