Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convict." So are a surprising number of female jurors. Many middle-class women jurors prefer not to believe young, braless and freewheeling rape victims. In particular, the myth that victims somehow provoke and accept rape is still very much alive. "In our many years of work with the sexual offender," reports Psychologist Groth and Co-Researcher Ann Wolbert Burgess, "we have yet to find a genuine case of sexual provocation on the part of a victim...
...past 16 years, Groth and his colleagues have identified four types of the act: displaced rape (brutalizing of women to strike back at a female in the rapist's past); compensating rape (an attempt to bury insecurities by controlling a woman, and sometimes trying to impress her with sexual prowess during rape); narcissistic rape (self-gratification rather than deep hostility, as in the case of the burglar who rapes a woman who happens to be in the house he robs); and sadistic rape (sexual pleasure comes only from inflicting pain...
This simple exercise is the cureall, its adherents claim, for almost everything from high blood pressure and lack of energy to alcoholism and poor sexual performance. "I use it the way I'd use a product of our technology to overcome nervous tension," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. "It's a nonchemical tranquilizer with no unpleasant side effects...
Soon the Professor, who wants little more than the time to study his books and pore over his art collection, becomes embroiled in the sexual squabbles and pairings going on right above his head...
...assault on Mrs. Scarlett was not merely an attempted rape, but a grotesque sexual debasement in which the woman was treated as if she were the chief object of a pigsticking game. Millington's defense is handled by his contemporary. Second Lieut. Arthur Drake (Michael York), who figures his client is guilty but cannot quite allow himself to go along with the military court's charade of justice. A good thing, too, be cause there is an increasingly likely chance that Millington is blameless...