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To: Born in a Rage
I have no doubt that the girl was also trying to push the boy off of her while she told him she needed to go home. There's your context...

So let me get this straight.
A woman consents to sex, voluntarily goes to a private place where only the participants are present, they begin to have intercourse, and THEN changes her mind.
The man continues for another minute and that constitutes RAPE?
And just HOW is the court to evaluate that set of circumstances? No other witnesses, no physical evidence of force, all just on the "state of mind" of the women?
O sure that makes for wonderful law...
142 posted on 01/07/2003 8:37:26 AM PST by Kozak
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To: Kozak
And just HOW is the court to evaluate that set of circumstances?

I'm sure it's not always easy to evaluate that type of situation. Obviously, a woman doesn't have to be physically beat up in order to be a rape victim...just the force of being held down, the fear of getting beat up and/or killed, the verbal threats...all of these things need to be taken into consideration and are all part of this crime. If someone beats someone up, it doesn't necessarily mean they raped the person. If someone is not beat up it doesn't necessarily mean they haven't been raped.

No other witnesses, no physical evidence of force, all just on the "state of mind" of the women?

Lots of people have been tried and convicted of crimes in which there were NO witnesses at all. In a rape case there is always a witness, the victim.

161 posted on 01/07/2003 2:34:30 PM PST by Born in a Rage
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