Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniquely barbaric act." Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane says the trend is an "incredible perversion." Indeed, many Britons, who have long regarded their country as a citadel of order and civility, were shocked at the findings of a recent government report showing that in 1985 the incidence of rape increased by 29% in England and Wales. Worse, it climbed by 56% in the City of London. One cynical police official called rape Britain's "biggest growth industry...
...feminism--has gone beyond those liberal claims, attempting to recast the roles of men and women, and to change the rules of the Battle of the Sexes. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or display." The aim was to eliminate the objectification of women--the portrayal of the female sex as a tool for attaining sexual satisfaction. Viewing women this way, the logic goes, encouraged the act of rape...
...familiar "freedom of the press" counter-argument has opposed these laws. It has been less frequently noted, however, that the causal connection between pornography and rape is tenuous, at best. When the the Supreme Court affirmed that the Indianapolis version of these anti-porn laws was unconstitutional, it did so solely on First Amendment grounds...
...usual, the legal issues obscured the real ones. The feminist fascists used the rape argument as a Trojan Horse. Their ultimate purpose was to recast the relations of men and women...