Word: groth
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...community is concerned, freeing a castrated rapist may also be unwise. "I know a lot of rape victims approve, but I'm afraid to have men like this out on the street," says Joy Bennett, executive director of the Rape Crisis Council of Greenville, S.C. A. Nicholas Groth, author of Men Who Rape and director of a program for sex offenders at a Connecticut prison, notes that "rape is the sexual expression of aggression, and not an aggressive expression of sexuality." Furthermore, Groth points out, even after castration, some men are capable of having intercourse. And if they cannot...
...Groth says that most rapists have wives or girlfriends and are not sexually deprived. They rape for power. "They are insecure, inadequate people who don't feel in control of their own lives or themselves." One rapist told Groth...
Rape is now regarded as a crime of violence, not passion. Sex is not the chief thing that motivates rapists, says A. Nicholas Groth, director of an innovative sex-offender program at the state prison in Somers, Conn. "Rape is the sexual expression of aggression...
There are no standard responses to an attack. Many self-defense specialists advise acting aggressively early in the assault, yelling or bending his pinkie finger back. But there is no way of knowing how a given attacker will respond. In Groth's group, one rapist said he "would let them go as soon as they started to cry." Another said he stabbed a woman who became assertive...
...fact that a state judge could seem almost casual about rape shows that beneath the new surface sensitivity, many of the cultural prejudices linger. "What we do in our society, whether it's in photography, films or language, is devalue sex," says Psychologist Groth. "and that gives the message that sex can become a weapon to degrade somebody." Such moral carelessness is what has made the U.S. violent in private, as well as in public. ?By Maureen Dowd...