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Women as perpetrators of sexual violence

 
  

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Ex
11:47 / 15.04.04
sex as penetration is seemingly 'feminazi101'. i recall fondly a discussion of a lecture with a close female friend, a lecture in which we had been told heterosexual sex=penetration and therefore also heterosexual sex=violence.

The classification of penetration as inherently disempowering is a problem, and I welcome re-transcriptions of being penetrated as an active empowering sexual maneouver, but I don't think you can lay the blame for that at the door of feminism.
There's an interesting article by Mandy Merck (see below)in which she discusses how the view of penetration as inherently degrading for the penetratee is actually drawing on a huge tradition of traditional sexist and masculinist thought. It's really not something that springs full-grown from the head of feminism; if Dworkin does think being penetrated is incompatible with being human, is a terrible thing to expect a person to do - so, in parallel, does sexist male thought.

yes, i was suggesting that as a lesbian, the lecturer in question was in a bad position to completely understand the dynamics of heterosexual female desire and participation in coitus.

The idea that only heterosexuals have a completely informed opinion on heterosexuality is slightly odd. Your lecturer's sexual orientation may well be an outcome of her own politics around, and experience with, penetrative heterosexual sex and gendered power relations. That is, she would undoubtedly argue that she is exactly the right person to be talking about the dynamics of heterosexual female desire and participation.

I see that a heterosexual feminist lecturer may well have more invested in the concept of reworking heterosexual sex, and come up with more empowering definitions of penetrative sex - which would be a Good Thing in my book - but I don't think she'd necessarily have a fuller comprehension of hetsex.

(Merck's essay is "MacKinnon's Dog: Antiporn's Canine Conditioning," Talking Gender and reprinted in In Your Face - worth reading for the line "If men are like dogs, what are dogs who are like men who are like dogs like?")
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:05 / 15.04.04
I think the complexities of Anna's thoughts about violation were lost rather in LLBIMG going to the mattresses, but I don't want to put words in her mouth..

When someone answers you with You know nothing about me or how I was raised and seems under the impression that it's in any way relevant to their cultural upbringing you kind of give up the ghost of an argument.

The idea that only heterosexuals have a completely informed opinion on heterosexuality is slightly odd

To clarify this point a little, surely a bisexual who stands on both sides of the sexuality fence, is far more qualified to talk about the issue of penetrative sex than a heterosexual who probably takes it all a little more personally? Surely?
Yes, I think that's complete nonsense as well, the truth is that this argument is becoming a little subjective and statements about rape, violation and sexuality can't rely on subjective points of view because they then rely entirely on our own experience of sex and the many acts that fall under that heading. Therefore to argue effectively we would all need to have been raped, we would need to be rapists and we would need to have had a whole myriad of different types of sex with both sexes.

My argument was based entirely around the culture that we live in and to argue against one sentence and take it out of the context of sexual desire and violence is to misquote me and argue against something I actually never said because it wasn't that type of statement in the first place. My point is that desire doesn't enter into it, not that rape is always and forever about violation, I'm sure there must be other motivations, I also think that violation is probably often one of them.
 
 
bjacques
13:08 / 16.04.04
Getting back to Jack's question, which I gathered was about how, not why, a woman could rape a man: I think we've figured out it would be difficult but not impossible for a woman to do it without some other violent assault or threat thereof.

The guy doesn't want sex with our hypothetical female rapist or the question never came up. Either way, there's no consent. She could slip him a mickey and then do pretty much anything that satisfies her sexually. Putting a guy under *and* giving him an erection by electrically stimulating the prostate (as with "mummification" or in "A Boy And His Dog") was already mentioned above. Dosing our hapless fellow with V1a.Gra might also work, I guess. Some research is wanted. In the closed world of female rapists, maybe it's already been done. Anyway, physical arousal doesn't imply consent because it can be caused artifically.

There's anal penetration or maybe s(h)itting on his face. Basically whatever leaves the guy feeling violated afterwards would count.

I guess it's also possible to lay a head trip on a guy to get him to provide sexual satisfaction while feeling violated at the same time *and* being helpless to stop.

And, of course without female-on-female rape, "women in prison" movies wouldn't exist.

Anna, I'm not sure that "violation" is the right word to characterize sex, even if you qualify it as consensual. Not every border crossing is a violation. Including normal eating and drinking, piercing or tattooing or maybe an organ transplant just stretches the concept of violation into meaninglessness.

But I can see your point. AIDS-assisted prudishness has
almost brought us back to the idea that, "Sex and the City" aside, women aren't supposed to want sex and should defend themselves against men who do. So there's that "violation." At the same time, you've still got Cosmo-style "How To Keep And Catch A Man" articles promoting a sort of entrapment (he wrote, while humming Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft"). I don't think either metaphor really applies, but they certainly sell well.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:04 / 16.04.04
I'm backing out of this thread because it's clear to me that no one's actually bothered to read what I've written and I'm beginning to feel pretty exasperated by it- earlier on I think I make it pretty clear that I view this as a social thing, I even relate it to magazines and the attitude to sex bandied about by them. 'Violation' is simply a word, if you don't like it than find one that you do like that explains my point as aptly.
 
 
bjacques
14:15 / 16.04.04
No, no. I think your thesis is valid; I just don't think violation is the right word for it. I was going to post that I hoped someone could come up with a better one without the connotations that accrue to it. Penetration is a good place to start from; there may be a word in between, but I just can't think of it. Violation by invitation just doesn't work for me.
 
 
vinnie
16:47 / 16.04.04
yes, it's true it's true. women use pressure tactics-"i'm not pretty enough", "are you embarassed about your .....", "i'll find it else where"
 
 
Char Aina
02:15 / 17.04.04
are you suggesting that a man tricked into sex a lá marty mcfly getting tricked into a fight is a form of rape?
if so i would like to hear more, as i currently disagree.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:51 / 17.04.04
i realise that i was not discussing an incidence of rape.

You're not quite getting it. What I said was that that *your discussion* was not an *instance* of rape. On the other hand it was a way to use gender and sex against another person in a system of establishing or reestablishing power relations. As I said, your discussion with your lady friend seemed a bit like having a sexual fantasy about said lecturer without her consent - a way to use the mechanisms of sex in a "victimless" way of reorganising power structures. You see?

On vinnie's point - one of the big arguments is, of course, what constitutes rape and what constitutes consent. He is arguing that women use coercive techniques to get sex. to be honest, I think we've been going to very different bars. This is usually identified as a male behaviour. It is also associated to a very great extent with situations where the concept of informed consent is complicated - usually, say, the teenage years, where susceptibility to emotional and peer pressure might be very powerful...
 
 
Char Aina
02:48 / 20.04.04
it was a way to use gender and sex against another person in a system of establishing or reestablishing power relations. As I said, your discussion with your lady friend seemed a bit like having a sexual fantasy about said lecturer without her consent - a way to use the mechanisms of sex in a "victimless" way of reorganising power structures. You see?


frankly, no.


your discussion with your lady friend seemed a bit like having a sexual fantasy about said lecturer without her consent


that seems a bit like you missed the point of what i was saying. explain your comment more clearly, please.





i was under the impression that we were disagreeing with her opinion that sex=violence on the grounds that it just plain did not match up to anything i or my friend had felt. while i understand that our experiences are not the canon of feminsim, it seemed a tad ridiculous for the explanation of the dynamics of heterosexual sex to bear no relation to any heterosexual sex we had experienced.


can we go back a bit, please, haus?

Toksik's attempt to remove the sexual competence of his straw-lady feminazi by making it clear that he and his WOMAN friend understand what sex is

well, no.
it seems i was making it exceptionally unclear.
i never said that we 'understand what sex is', nor did i intend to suggest that lesbians do not. it seems you think i did. it is of course possible to understand things you do not experience. it is, i believe, ridiculous for someone to TELL you that your desire is a desire to be violated by a phallus, or that you are a potential rapist whose every desire for sex is in reality a desire for dominion over womankind.


this is where i feel the line has been crossed by the lecturer. this is also where i was motivated to cross it myself, invoking the term feminazi to describe her being a Feminist Who Puts Forward a View of an Ideal World in Which Women Are Not Only Restored to an Equal Footing but are also Unfairly Favoured. i apologise for what has obviously been a badly chosen word, and for any offence or misundertsnding it has caused.

in my defence, i have not told anyone that my view of sex is the correct model, merely that others can be seen to be incomplete.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:49 / 20.04.04
I confess that the sheer nastiness of the term "feminazi" might be colouring my viewpoint. However, I don't quite understand your confusion.

To wit:

i recall fondly a discussion of a lecture with a close female friend, a lecture in which we had been told heterosexual sex=penetration and therefore also heterosexual sex=violence. it seemed that no matter the context of the relationship, the lecturer was unwilling to accept the idea that my friend had put her hand up to explain; the idea that what she (the radical lesbian feminist lecturer) called penetration could also be thought of as envelopment. i believe that this determination that sex=penetration comes from the same conditioned place as our beliefs that a man can rape but a woman cannot.

Let us, then, imagine for a moment that she was indeed coditioned to be unable to accept your WOMAN friend's interjection - conditioned by what is unclear, but somehow brainmelted into believing that. This conditioning is identified as from the same origin as Jack Fear's problems with female rape, but since Jack Fear is not to my knowledge a lesbian feminist this seems a bit of a stretch. It seems more likely, surely, that the idea that *all* heterosexual sex is violence and the idea that *no* heterosexual sex instigated by women can be violent are two different ideas. But anyway.

Let us further assume that, as heterosexuals, you are both obviously more competent to talk about heterosexual sex than some lesbian, and specifically a radical lesbian feminist lecturer, however academic the context of the discussion. Let us... no, sorry, I just can't do it. I literally cannot believe that the situation went as you describe it, nor that the world stopped to explain that she and Jack Fear were sisters under the skin. So, it's a fantasy, one fondly remembered. And, in that fantasy, the relationships of power are restored to a natural footing; the lesbian "feminazi" has been exposed as incapable of understanding how heterosexual sex works, and her ignorance made clear not only in front of the audience of the lecture hall, but now in front of this new audience of Barbelith. It's kind of like the end of Dead Poet's Society, but with man-on-woman sex.

At the end of which, the power has been restored. The lesbian feminist has been put in her place, and the rightness of the correct view of heterosexual sex (that it is as you, as heterosexuals, see it) has been reasserted, as has the right of heterosexuals to establish the boundaries of how one is allowed to discuss heterosexual sex without being pathologised. The right balance has been restored.

So, about equivalent to a sexual power fantasy.

Now, I may be missing something. perhaps if you could explain in greater depth your friend's objection and your lecturer's reaction, it might become clear. I have a horrible vision of some poor woman just trying to teach history of radical feminism 101, rather than thumping a tub, but perhaps I am swayed by the idea of a pair of hets laughing about how stupid these feminazis are.
 
 
Char Aina
23:35 / 20.04.04
she was indeed coditioned to be unable to accept your WOMAN friend's interjection - conditioned by what is unclear

do you need to capitalise 'woman'? you keep doing it and i think we all got the point. in fact, if you look, i tried to answer it.


This conditioning is identified as from the same origin as Jack Fear's problems with female rape, but since Jack Fear is not to my knowledge a lesbian feminist this seems a bit of a stretch.

jack fear is a human being, though, and a member of what is often termed 'western society'. the same circumstances can produce different people, especially if these people are of a different gender.




It seems more likely, surely, that the idea that *all* heterosexual sex is violence and the idea that *no* heterosexual sex instigated by women can be violent are two different ideas.

yes, yes it does sem likely. more likely though? than what?
more likely than the assertion of mine that they are in fact the same concept? the asertion which i didnt make?




Let us... no, sorry, I just can't do it. I literally cannot believe that the situation went as you describe it, nor that the world stopped to explain that she and Jack Fear were sisters under the skin.

so call me a liar, or accuse my memory of being bad, and be done with it. i will call you a fabricator for this nonsense about jack needing to be lesbian, if it helps.


i said this determination comes from the same conditioned place as our beliefs, not that the belief that sex is violence is the same as an inabilty to fully accept a female rapist. i said our, and not jack fear's too, if you'll notice. he's not the only one who finds such imaginings difficult.


So, it's a fantasy, one fondly remembered.

i will try to remeber never to reveal my emotions at remembering my friends again, lest it be cast up against me. i see now that it was irrelevant, and as such serves only as basis for your ridicule.

i would suggest that next time you make such statements as

Toksik's attempt to remove the sexual competence of his straw-lady [...]has no coercive elementand no physical expression - it's something like a sexual fantasy -

you are careful to explain that it is only a fantasy because you say so. it happened, and your lack of belief in that is not proof it did not. much in the same way as my asertion it did is not proof of my position either.

perhaps i understand the phrase 'sexual competence' differently also; it at first read seems you are saying i think she is incompetent at sex, whihc i assure you is not and was never the case. i have no idea of her prowess, and i wouldnt think to suggest otherwise.





And, in that fantasy, the relationships of power are restored to a natural footing; the lesbian "feminazi" has been exposed as incapable of understanding how heterosexual sex works, and her ignorance made clear...


well, no.
her ignorance was only 'made clear' in the sense that a question was asked of her understanding, and subsequently answered inadequately. no one badgered her to answer, she was allowed to take other questions without expanding.

i also have not said she was incapable of understanding heterosexual sex. the problem was with her inability to listen to another view on this subject, in this case one from someone with experience of the very act she was describing.

that is not to say there is no chance the lecturer also speaks from experience, but it is to say that hers is unlikely to be the definitive experience.





Now, I may be missing something.

yes.
every time i have said that my friend was not pushing hers as the one and only view, and that the main objection was that the lecturer asserted that there is no way to describe het-sex other than her own.


I have a horrible vision of some poor woman just trying to teach history of radical feminism 101, rather than thumping a tub, but perhaps I am swayed by the idea of a pair of hets laughing about how stupid these feminazis are.

it wasnt 101. it wasnt a history class. she was not thumping any tubs, but neither was she a poor woman teaching sneering hets. the class was a broad mix of sexuality, and mostly female. does that help your mantal image become less upsetting? or will you take my divergence form your assumptions about the day as proof further of my status as a fantasist?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:46 / 20.04.04
You're geting mixed up, which is partly my fault. The remembered act itself is incredible to me, but we can accept that everything happened just as you remembered it and still say that this restitution afterwards of the right attitudes to heterosexual sex was *like* a sexual fantasy. That is, it did something *akin* to a sexual fantasy by relocating sexual power back with the agents - that it, the heterosexual boy and girl. It's sort of a metaphor.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:02 / 21.04.04
In fact, I think I kind of said it quite clearly with:

t was a way to use gender and sex against another person in a system of establishing or reestablishing power relations. As I said, your discussion with your lady friend seemed a bit like having a sexual fantasy about said lecturer without her consent - a way to use the mechanisms of sex in a "victimless" way of reorganising power structures. You see?

Which is where the trouble started...
 
 
Char Aina
00:21 / 21.04.04
well, quite.

this restitution afterwards of the right attitudes to heterosexual sex

restitution?
i'm not sure if there is another meaning, so i assume you mean the restoration of a previous state?
in what way did challenging the lecturer's lack of openness to other possible interpretations of sex restore anything?
she has still got her opinion, and is still teaching it to many students as Truth Without Alternative.

i understand that i could have been seen as attacking her thinking because it placed me on the worng side of an unpleasant divide, but i was not. i was attacking her thinking as proscriptive and biased.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:31 / 21.04.04
in what way did challenging the lecturer's lack of openness to other possible interpretations of sex restore anything?

No no. The restitution was you and your friend jollying about it afterwards.

she has still got her opinion, and is still teaching it to many students as Truth Without Alternative.

Just as she might had you exacted revenge by having a sexual fantasy about her.

I don't mean to be rude, toksik, but I think you may be the only person reading this who is having trouble with the metaphor, and this is really getting in the way of the rest of the discussion...
 
 
Char Aina
17:42 / 21.04.04
well, thats as may be.
but you are still doing what you were doing before.

saying 'exacted revenge' is placing a motive in my head that is just not there, and seems to me to be there purely to make me feel like a dick. call me paranoid if you like, but there are other ways to communicate the message you say you want me to take away.

delete my posts as applicable/you see fit, as i am no longer concerned with this thread as a participant.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:35 / 21.04.04
To unpack the metaphor a leetle bit further - we see these equalising actions all the time, observed and unobserved, where the rightness of a particular set of views and interactions within gender construction are reasserted - pressure is released, and partiy is restored. Which is where I think part of the problem with the idea of "women who rape" comes - the pressure is unequal. You're opening the door the wrong way. Which is where toksik did potentially have a point - the equalizing that cannot have penetration as violation also cannot have vagina as aggressor. So, in either case you are swimming against the flow - the problems first identified as physical are in fact conceptual. In which case we should perhaps expect some sort of resurgence in sexual violence perpetrated by women as the structures and strictures of traditional gender interrelation and presentation break down...
 
 
Jester
19:11 / 21.04.04
the equalizing that cannot have penetration as violation also cannot have vagina as aggressor

Actually, I would read it in the opposite way. If you agree with the concept that all penetration = violation, then:

a) penetration = violation all the time
b) being penetrated = being violated all the time

therefore

c) that which is always, and can only be violated, cannot violate (the penetrator), because the act of penetration, even if initiated by the penetrated, against the penetrator's wishes, is a violation of the penetrated.

I could probably have put that better

But what also underlies this is that if you subscribe to the idea that all penetration is a violation, you are really undermining the distinction between consensual sex and rape in a way that is extremely disempowering.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:13 / 21.04.04
Certainly in a way that is potentially problematising, although there's a tendency here to conflate violating with violence which may not be entirely correct. I think it is possible to see the insertion of slot a into tab b as violating without also assuming that it is also ineluctably an act of violence... that depends on your attitude to bodies, though, and when you get into McKinnonite waters on that one things do get decidedly murky.
 
 
Jester
21:15 / 21.04.04
although there's a tendency here to conflate violating with violence which may not be entirely correct. I think it is possible to see the insertion of slot a into tab b as violating without also assuming that it is also ineluctably an act of violence

Sorry, but I thought the whole argument was predicated on the idea that violation = violent penetration? Otherwise, where is the argument? It's hardly contraversial that penetration = inserting tab a into slot b.

Violate is not a nuetral word, and I don't see how it can be used in a way that doesn't connotate some kind of violence or coersion, even if it isn't physical violence.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:27 / 21.04.04
Well, there are a number of other definitions of "violate". Profaning a shrine might be quite a useful one. We came upon the idea of violation without the sort of violence or coercion that one encounters in rape fairly early on:

It seems to me that women are socially and biologically trained to be violated. We take things inside us, the act of penetration is a violation even when it's done with consent. Women get pregnant and the baby violates and takes control of the female body for nine months. Every woman expects to be violated at some time and in some way even if they retain power over the act.

That is, the consent-removing violence is done if at all at some earlier, developmental stage, if I read aright. However, I agree that if one assumes violence is implicit in violation, and that violation is implicit in penetration, and thus that all penetration is violence, you give yourself real problems about determining what is and is not sexual assault. On the other hand, I think the only person who has advanced that progression so far is the radical lesbian feminist lecturer, who is placed outside the proper conduct of discussion by being radical, a lesbian, a feminist and a lecturer, and also being a remembrance rather than a participant...
 
 
Jester
21:38 / 21.04.04
Profaning a shrine might be quite a useful one.

Profaning a shrine is a violent act in a way, though, or someone who's shrine was profaned would see it as a violent act.

It seems to me that women are socially and biologically trained to be violated. We take things inside us, the act of penetration is a violation even when it's done with consent. Women get pregnant and the baby violates and takes control of the female body for nine months. Every woman expects to be violated at some time and in some way even if they retain power over the act.

Again, that is just taking for granted the correlation of penetration and violation. I would consider that an interpretation of penetration, not a definition.

The pregnancy example is a much better one, though, although I don't know if that's because I personally find the idea of being pregnant rather repellant Having children is a choice though, not a necessary function of womanhood.

At any rate, even though personal testimony isn't maybe all that valid of an argument, as a woman I can safely say I've never expected myself to be violated. So that generalisation doesn't hold water with me.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:51 / 22.04.04
OK - so how does that feed back into your perception of women as potential rapists?
 
 
Jester
22:23 / 22.04.04
OK - so how does that feed back into your perception of women as potential rapists?

Well, I don't know that it does directly, the argument seems to have veered a bit off course Other than the fact that the concept that women are biological and social victims comes from the same largely sexist view point that says women can't rape, I guess. Even when it's mediated through a supposedly not sexist feminist lecturer. When it comes to something as deeply ingrained as gender typing, it can be easy to not be able to detect that, even in your own supposedly right on responses to a particular issue.

The concept that women can't rape is really pretty ludicrous to me, to be honest. It isn't part of the traditional gender construct, true. I mean, hasn't anyone seen Dangerous Liasons? Seriously, though, I'm sure it happens. And not just women raping men, either. Wasn't there recently a case where a woman was conviction of rape for being part of a gang rape of another woman?
 
 
Jester
22:55 / 22.04.04
Actually, I thought about it a bit more... Maybe it isn;t such a ridiculous idea that women can't rape. I mean: other than the empirical evidence (like the woman I mentioned), that it does happen... Does it matter that she was raping a woman, though? That said, it is generally the other way around.

I think it probably needs a more thorough understanding of what makes a man, or indeed anyone, sexually assault another person. I have read plenty of political explainations, but no actual scientific ones as of yet...

Looking at the topic abstract again, I would probably have problems with the basic concept that 'rape is violence using the penis as a weapon'. What is sexual assault using something else as a weapon? It's still rape, isn't it? Obviously if a woman is raping a man by coercing him into hetro sex the penis isn't a weapon at all, rather the opposite.

I wonder if the concept that women can't rape isn't somehow connected to the way that our society portrays the penis as a weapon (also, the horrible slang for vaginas that is bandied around by some people - axe wound, etc, etc). Which, I would argue again, is society's interpretation, rather than a discription of function... Whether or not it is an accurate interpretation is another thing. It seems to be that to accept the idea that rape is something only men are capable of, is to accept a whole load of other concepts about womens sexuality that are bundled into that. Which I don't accept. So the natural progression is that women are capable of, and do in fact rape. So, we have an equal share in the worst aspects of human behaviour, too.

Sorry, that is something of an ill organised splurge of thoughts on the subject, no doubt repeating what other people have said...
 
 
penitentvandal
13:55 / 08.03.06
If nobody minds, I'm going to bump this thread, as I think it may attract a bit of attention in light of recent discussions on this site.
 
 
alas
14:35 / 08.03.06
I didn't know this thread existed, but I have to admit, in terms of id entity's comments in the Policy, I would like to request that the title be changed. Here's the argument:

There are people of all genders who, due to past events in their lives, have an extremely powerful, uncontrollable negative reaction to seeing that word, among other triggering factors. While I believe that people who may be triggered in this way have a certain responsibility to protect themselves from being exposed to triggers they can't handle— I wouldn't recommend that someone in this situation go to a hardcore dungeon party, for instance— I also think that people have certain reasonable expectations of what they will and won't find in [the subject lines, usernames, and abstracts on] everyone's favorite message board.

As a result, in the thread on the topic of sexual assualt and rape in the Conversation, id entity used the term "sexual coercion". I realize that it may be grammatically challenging to change the title, but I think it's possible. "Women as Sexual Assailants"?
 
 
Professor Silly
17:50 / 08.03.06
Obviously the definitions employed have some subjectivity.

But I've spoken with women who tend to have relationships with other women (I dislike the titles "gay" or "lesbian" as too limiting. I think we shouldn't brand people with titles until they die and are incapable of changing)--and they told me that their first "lesbian" experience was against their will. They described the experience as "force muffing" where they were forced to eat the other girl's pussy, after which the dominate one "claimed" the submissive as her "girlfriend"...and the victim then tended to choose girls from then on.

I find this whole scenerio rather shocking.

None the less, I would define this as rape, even though no penetration has occured.

More specifically, I would define rape as any sexual act where one or more of the participants are unwilling. A biological reflex that shows physical desire does not imply the willingness within.
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:49 / 08.03.06
Anyone intereted in the subject would probably use the word "rape" in the search engine. Is it realistic, that they would search for "sexual coercion" or "Sexual Assailants" if they find nothing on "rape"?
 
 
*
03:05 / 09.03.06
If they use google, they'll find this thread, because it won't confine the search to the title and abstract.
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:03 / 09.03.06
They described the experience as "force muffing" where they were forced to eat the other girl's pussy, after which the dominate one "claimed" the submissive as her "girlfriend"...and the victim then tended to choose girls from then on.


????????????????????????????????????????????

I can't possibly describe how much this "scenario" seem bizarre to me. It looks like sometyhing ou of a prision movie. Were the "submissive" one already (for the lack of a better term) leasbian-prone to begin with or this insanity changed them somehow (I can't believe in this hypothesis)? Does this... thing actually happens? How can one force another into having sexual relations, then "claims" them as their own in any way and then those latter ones actually accept it???? Forget the prision mocie comment, this is from the bronze age, for fuck sake.

Sorry, its the big red "self-destruct" button going off again. I hate when people take advantage of defenseless people, and I hate when those defenseless people let it happen in a regular basis.

We, as a sensitive species, should be better than that.
 
 
Aertho
20:51 / 09.03.06
Ha! DM, this sort of thing happens all the time, I'm sure. We may be a sensitive species, but the mechanism that allows to be that sensitive also allows us to be ridiculously cruel. Imagine the most revolting thing you've ever seen in film, and understand that it's probably happened. Then try to imagine something 10 times worse and degrading. That's probably happened too.
 
 
*
20:55 / 09.03.06
Can we try to avoid unsubstantiated anecdotes told us by others? Because otherwise, I think, the whole thread will be "I knew someone who knew someone who..." and then there will be a lot of people going "Oh, gosh, that's awful!" and it just feels like staring at a car crash. One where the people who were injured can't see you staring, and can't tell you to buzz off and give them their privacy. I have stories I could share, too, but it just feels disrespectful to do so.

Am I off base or out of line here?
 
 
Aertho
20:58 / 09.03.06
Not at all. Merely driving back to the point of human cruelty. Onward?
 
 
*
21:12 / 09.03.06
I'd like to get into Nina's comment here:

The most disturbing thing about this thread and the rape vs. rejection thread is for me, beyond a doubt, that the majority of responses have come from men. It's not that I believe for one second that women should have more to say about this subject but I do think that they need to push forward and try to bring some reason in because I'm finding some of the male comments reactionary and over the top. I think men find the whole notion of rape more difficult than women, I'm not sure why but generally that seems to be the case among the men I know. If anyone can shed some light on why than I'd really like to hear it.

I think in my experience it has generally been the opposite, but most of the men I've observed lately have been gay men. Could many gay men take a more casual view of rape than heterosexual men, and than women? If so, why might that be? I think one answer is that many gay men have experienced sexual coercion of one kind or another and in some circles it has become normalized. I wonder if this is not also true of many women.
 
  

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