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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: E who wrote (35218)4/18/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I shall try, probably fruitlessly, to hold myself to a single comment on this one.

We seem to be dancing a bit on the head of a semantic pin. Of course all rape has a sexual component, otherwise we wouldn't call it rape, we'd call it assault. A debate over whether a rapist is an assailant who chooses sex as the mode of assault or a sexual being who chooses assault as the mode of sexual expression seems a shade dubious to me; legitimate in abstract terms, but difficult to resolve and likely to evoke considerable pain on the part of individuals for whom the subject is not abstract at all. I would prefer to leave it behind.

Would it be fair to say that rape involves sex, violence, and domination in varying proportions, depending on the case?
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