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To: E who wrote (35218)	4/18/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

How about being sexually attracted to yellow raincoats. Can you relate to that? I sure can't. I have seen a magazine devoted to the fetish, so I know that it exists.

To: E who wrote (35218)	4/18/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"People are always saying sexual fixations or obsessions are 'unfathomable' to them." I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I said rape was. Fixations and obsessions are not rape. Christallmighty! The power of boobs! Beyond comprehension! But not unfathomable. The human female is the only primate whose teats remain full, erect, turgid, whatever. For a number of decades I believed that the obsession with breasts was a contamination. But, just as with lipstick, later came to understand it was all part of this Attract, Select, Propagate process. Do not, please, simply because you like to make exchanges, take me up on points that are not in contention. geo

To: E who wrote (35218)	4/18/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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?