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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (21634)	7/24/2005 7:16:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 28931

I have met several people who believed if a woman looked sexy, say by wearing a mini, she was provoking rape. While looking attractive promotes the desire for sex, the act of tearing off a woman's cloths and actually doing the act while she is screaming and kicking and crying is not appealing to a normal person. The normal person isn't a rapist, but that doesn't mean that the rapist isn't motivated by sexual desire. Its possible that sexy/skimpy clothes might increase that desire and result in rape, but its often neither necessary or sufficient to cause rape. A rape might happen anyway, and of course typically the wearing of such clothes doesn't result in rape. It might increase the chance of rape happening, but probably not by a very large degree, and even if it does increase the chance it doesn't mean that any of the blame should be shifted from the rapist to the victim, just as flashing cash might provoke a mugging but doesn't make the mugger any less morally responsible for the act, or mean that the person flashing the cash should be condemned. Tim