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Originally Posted by Adder
That's an interesting response. You're assuming that admitting the sexual component of the crime is somehow down playing it. Why?
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I don't assume a date rape is any less about power or more about sex than any other rape. Indeed, it may be less about sex in many ways.
Nor should one even assume "date rapes" are a meaningful category. What separates them from other rapes? They can be as violent, they can be as sudden, weapons can be used (indeed, I've seen statistics saying weapons are used MORE often when it involves two parties who knew each other), perhaps the only unifying thing about the category is that even fewer rapists get convicted when the parties knew each other beforehand, in part because people make false assumptions about date rape.
