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...Taylor was wrong. In a democracy, the government cannot decide what the people "need to know." That is the responsibility of unfettered, independent news organizations. Every day, these organizations make difficult decisions about what to print, what to air. Do you print a rape victim's name? Do you print classified information about an undercover military operation? Do you print the Pentagon Papers? Sometimes, they make lousy decisions. Tough. That's another cost of living in a country where the government cannot control the free flow of information...
...answer, of course, is yes -- by another man. In fact by some estimates, 10% of rape victims are men, though they rarely report the crime. But the interesting question, in light of the current debate, is how a man could be raped by a woman...
...event, the most expansive definitions of rape include psychological coercion, which raises the question, Couldn't a woman emotionally pressure a man to have sex, by, for instance, impugning his manhood if he refused, and thus be guilty of rape...
Some researchers fear that even raising the question trivializes the whole issue of rape. But there are paradoxes here that might shed light on the issue. How is it that when an adolescent boy is coerced into sleeping with an older woman, it is viewed with a wink as an accepted rite of passage, while the reverse -- the coercion of a girl by an older man -- is clearly...
Most women who get raped are raped by people they already know -- like the boy in biology class, or the guy in the office down the hall, or their friend's brother. The familiarity is enough to make them let down their guard, sometimes even enough to make them wonder afterward whether they were "really raped." What people think of as "real rape" -- the assault by a monstrous stranger lurking in the shadows -- accounts for only 1 out of 5 attacks...