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The gap between rape and consent : Comments
By Monika Kruesmann, published 9/3/2006Just saying 'no', just doesn’t cut it.
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"But where popular culture is so imbued with (idealised) sexual imagery that many men and women conceive of their sum personal value in direct relation to their sexual attractiveness, there’s a problem.'
Again, while I might agree that there may be a problem with such a self image, I am not sure about the link with sexual violence. I thought that research shows that the essence of sexual violence is just violence. It is a sadistic desire for the perpetrator to dominate, humiliate and hurt the victim, rather than to violently seek sexual release. The means to prevent or reduce sexual violence are therefore much more complex than the article would have us believe.