If that was true no one would have voted for Roy Moore, how seriously do we really take sexual assault in this country when we elected a president that bragged about it on tape?
I'm not convinced of this. I think this is better explained by people's willingness to rationalise or overlook things when it suits their larger ideological/political purposes. I'd agree that people don't rape so much more seriously than everything else that it overcomes this.
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There's also the issue of what happens when we remove the word rape and just talk about what's acceptable and what's not. I remember a talk with some guy friends (all of them I consider good people) where someone asked in the middle - if a girl tells you to stop right before---
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you orgasm, what do you do? None of them even understood they're talking about sexual assault.
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