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Koestner--date-rape poster-girl--received enormous attention when she first went national. Her case acted as a catalyst in the explosion of media attention to date rape. Her previous requests to speak here at Harvard had been previously denied by the administration. And While she seems like a relatively sympathetic figure, I wonder, why has she been successful...
Koestner could have emerged, without alteration, from Katie Roiphe's semi-literate but controversial polemic against date rape, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus. Hers is a textbook case of what occurs at that murky intersection where naivete, sexual jousting and irresponsibility collide...
...realize that all sex--heterosexual and homosexual--is transactional in nature, either explicitly or implicitly. Our failure, and reluctance to acknowledge this reality, results in problems--specifically, the difficulties in demarcation of boundaries, the easy confusion of post-coital tristesse with what has conventionally been known and acknowledged as rape...
Koestner spent the day on campus, meeting withthe Administrative Board members in the morningand holding a panel discussion with members ofpeer counseling groups, including Response,Calling It Rape and Aids Education and Outreach,in the afternoon...
Koestner first spoke publicly about herexperience during the summer of 1991, the summerafter the rape. Speaking five or six days a week,she has been to nearly 80 high schools and a dozencolleges...