Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around Harvard's campus--namely, pornography? Common sense indicates that a rapist is more likely to be involved in pornography than in avoiding lustful thoughts. Indeed, the facts colloborate common sense: psychological studies and even the Attorney General's 1986 Commission on Pornography point to pornography as encouraging sexual assault...
Reid's cartoon is harmful precisely because it draws attention away from one of the genuine causes of rape: society's glorification of both violence and consequence-free sex. When an overwhelming percentage of movies, songs, advertisements, books, etc. glorify both non-monogamous sexual relationships and violence, is it a surprise that rape is an everyday occurrence? Is it a surprise that rape happens at Harvard when a large percentage of campus organizations use sexual innuendo to promote their events...
...around Harvard's campus--namely, pornography? Common sense indicates that a rapist is more likely to be involved in pornography than in avoiding lustful thoughts. Indeed, the facts collaborate common sense: psychological studies and even the Attorney General's 1986 Commission on Pornography point to pornography as encouraging sexual assault...
Reid's cartoon is harmful precisely because it draws attention away from one of the genuine causes of rape: society's glorification of both violence and consequence-free sex. When an overwhelming percentage of movies, songs, advertisements, books, etc. glorify both non-monogamous sexual relationships and violence, is it a surprise that rape is an everyday occurrence? Is it a surprise that rape happens at Harvard when a large percentage of campus organizations use sexual innuendo to promote their events...
...option to voice her feelings at the vigil-rally. What's also important is that you have the option to support her by showing up. Whether or not she, or anyone else, decides to tell her story, you will have shown that you support and care about survivors of sexual assault. You will have acknowledged that rape happens on this campus...