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...Those who view rape through a political lens tend to place all responsibility on men to make sure that their partners are consenting at every point of a sexual encounter. At the extreme, sexual relations come to resemble major surgery, requiring a signed consent form. Clinical psychologist Mary P. Koss of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who is a leading scholar on the issue, puts it rather bluntly: "It's the man's penis that is doing the raping, and ultimately he's responsible for where he puts...
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...magnitude of the problem is mindboggling. More than 25 percent of college-age women report having been raped, according to a 1987 study by Mary Koss in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The FBI reports that one in three women will be raped in her lifetime. Other studies show that the vast majority of these rapes are perpetrated by an acquaintance of the victim...
Acquaintance rapes are not always reported because many victims do not define themselves as having been raped. Koss found that 73% of the women forced into sex avoided using the term rape to describe their experiences, and only 5% reported the incident to police. Psychologist Barry Burkhart of Auburn University explains, "Because it is such a paralyzing event, so outside the realm of normal events, they literally don't know what happened to them...
...thing. 'NO, get your filthy hands off me!' is another." Some feminists argue that the U.S. has a "rape culture" in which males are encouraged to treat women aggressively and women are trained to submit. Some surveys back up that dark ideological view of male sexual behavior. In Koss's study, one male in 13 admitted attempting or committing at least one rape. In a 1980 report at UCLA, half the male students admitted that there could be some circumstances under which they would force a woman to commit a sexual act if they were sure of not being punished...