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Researching the "Rape Culture" of America - An Investigation of Feminist Claims about Rape

View the article here See the article above for the footnotes. 06/14/2004 By Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers As a crime against the person, rape is uniquely horrible in its long-term effects. The anguish it brings is often followed by an abiding sense of fear and shame. Discussions of the data on rape inevitably seem callous. How can one quantify the sense of deep violation behind the statistics? Terms like incidence and prevalence are statistical jargon; once we use them, we necessarily abstract ourselves from the misery. Yet, it remains clear that to arrive at intelligent policies and strategies to decrease the occurrence of rape, we have no alternative but to gather and analyze data, and to do so does not make us callous. Truth is no enemy to compassion, and falsehood is no friend...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).