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...England Quarterly. And it turns out that Puritans were by no means the prudes we imagined. One Boston minister, for example, criticized “that Popish conceit of the Excellency of Virginity.” Court records, Morgan writes, reveal that “[w]hen fornication, adultery, rape, or even buggery and sodomy appeared, [members of the Puritan establishment] were not surprised, nor were they so severe with the offenders as their codes of law would lead one to believe. Sodomy, to be sure, they usually punished with death; but rape, adultery, and fornication they regarded as pardonable...
...Dangers of Sexual Equality” (Dec. 12), as well as in his Eliot House Faculty Dinner address, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 implied that stopping rape requires a return to the days of male chivalry and female chastity. But chivalry, consisting of manners rather than true respect and understanding, is discontinuous and contradictory. It doesn’t apply to sluts, it doesn’t apply to poor women (e.g. maidservants), it doesn’t even have to apply if you are ugly...
Under its regime, the demand for female chastity becomes a weapon for blaming rape survivors, who wouldn’t have been assualted if they weren’t so promiscuous...
According to the 2000 report, “The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), about 90 percent of survivors of completed or attempted rape knew their assailants. Also, the NIJ reports that about 60 percent of assaults occur in the survivor’s own residence, while 30 percent occur in the assailants’ residences. Considering these statistics, there may be as many as 60 people who were sexually assaulted so far this year, with the majority of those assaults occurring in dorms on campus. I am certainly...
Statistically, I am in much more danger of being sexually assaulted by a friend, blockmate, boyfriend or classmate in my own room than by a stranger on the streets. Strategies to prevent the former type of rape differ substantially from the latter. We need to acknowledge and support survivors of all sexual assaults, and we need to do more than just recommend walking in groups to truly work to eliminate sexual violence from our community...