jmcquown said:Scott said:Sheldon said:Police Make Arrest in Kansas Teen's Death
Girl's Body Reportedly Found at a Missouri Lake
By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
AP
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (June 7) - Police arrested a man in the abduction
and death of a teenager whose body was found Wednesday in a Missouri
park four days after she disappeared from a Kansas store's parking
lot.
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Quoted message said:Do you think if they legalize prostitution ( I don't mean
street/corner prostitution) it will cut down on the number of rapes?
No. Rape is not about sex. First and foremost it's about forced power and
control over another person. Degradation and humiliation go right along
with it, hence the number of rapes that still go unreported.
But "power" and "degradation and humiliation" can be sexual turn-ons.
Inappropriate sexual turn-ons, yes, but the whole crock-of-[censored] line,
"Rape is not about sex," is promoted to make rape victims feel better,
and hopefully lessen the rape's effect on the victim's sexuality.
However well meaning, it is still [censored].
I go so far as to say that any sexual intercourse that takes place in
a context of men being for more powerful than women is potentially
rape. That includes all sex that takes place in highly patriarchal
societies. In these societies, women have less power than the typical
12 year old girl in the West, and we think that guys who seduce 12
year old girls are horrible cads.
In parts of Africa they practice FGM*, which is meant to make
intercourse undesirable for women, thus transforming EVERY event into
rape. There, rape is the norm for sexual relations. Do you think
that when Nigerian men have sex with their mutilated wives, that it
"is not about sex"? You think that those guys aren't horny?
However much people don't like to admit it, rape is on the continuum
of normal human sexuality. That doesn't make it good, or even
acceptable. It is also "normal" to want to kill people who have upset
you, but we don't allow it, and for good reason. It is normal to want
to take your neighbors' food, dwelling, whatever too. We attempt to
socialize our children such that they do not do those things, by
instilling empathy and a sense of fairness. We don't always succeed.
Prostitution should be legal for ONE REASON, because our society,
which has, and continues to treat women as second class human beings,
has no moral authority to tell and individual woman what she may or
may not do with her own body. Telling women that they cannot use any
asset that they happen to have in consensual commerce continues that
patriarchal ownership paradigm. Those who think otherwise have a lot
in common with bin Laden and his folks.
In bonobo** societies there is no rape, and the females use their
sexual appeal to empower themselves, the nightmare scenario for all
the patriarchal religios, be they Taliban, or the guy in the Vatican.
*"The importance given to virginity and an intact hymen in these
societies is the reason why female circumcision still remains a very
widespread practice despite a growing tendency, especially in urban
Egypt, to do away with it as something outdated and harmful. Behind
circumcision lies the belief that, by removing parts of girls'
external genitals organs, sexual desire is minimized. This permits a
female who has reached the dangerous age of puberty and adolescence to
protect her virginity, and therefore her honor, with greater ease.
Chastity was imposed on male attendants in the female harem by
castration which turned them into inoffensive eunuchs. Similarly
female circumcision is meant to preserve the chastity of young girls
by reducing their desire for sexual intercourse."
--source: http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
--Bryan
Frustrated daddies
Pathetic old men
Keep tryin' to sell us
With love as a sin
We're all fu(king sick of pathetic old men
--The Bonobos