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...Associated Press has not identified the woman, and does not identify rape victims, except in extraordinary cases...
...easy to agree that rape is reprehensible. Even those who disagree about what defines the act of rape condemn it. What is not so easy to agree on is the definition of responsible sexual behavior: sexual behavior that does not lead to the violation of another human being...
Efforts to define responsible sexual behavior and consent so that no one would be confused about when a rape has occurred have, not surprisingly, uncovered the deeper, more subtle disagreements and misunderstandings about precisely these points. Various studies and surveys have found, for example, that men and women have different interpretations of behaviors as simple as a smile, and as serious as the expected quid pro quo for paying for your date's dinner...
...current public discussion of acquaintance rape, a discussion which has as its goal the reduction of rape and the appropriate prosecution of those who rape, has produced as well the extraordinary characterization of date rape as an item on the "PC" agenda, and articles which take women and feminists to task for their part in creating the conditions that allow men to rape, either out of lack of control or out of confusion...
This is an astonishing conclusion. In fact, it has been through the work of feminists--academics, psychologists, lawyers, survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse and battering--that public awareness has been called to the lack of "particular care and respect" historically paid to women, and that laws have been crafted and enacted which, by holding those who rape, abuse and batter accountable for their actions, perforce socialize them...