Criminalization Can the law prevent date rape? The law can prevent some date rapes. If a mart can be put in jail for exerting emotional pressure, men will exert less of it; if a woman who is under the influence can yell rape the following morning, fewer men will buy women drinks, so there will […]

ITEM A husband and wife m Australia were makmg love (or so he thought) and she asked him to stop. The following morning she called the police and reported him as a rapist, darning it took him thirty seconds to stop. He claims he stopped nght away. He received four years in prison.66 Australian men […]

Most rapes of men occur in prison. But even outside of prison, about 9 percent of reported rapes are against men (probably mostly by men, but no one knows for sure).57 Even rape outside of prison, then, is about as significant an issue for men as AIDS is for women — about 10 percent of […]

ITEM A female cNd-care worker acknowledges having a six-month sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy inder her care. She receives no prison term — not a sngle day. She is allowed to go free on probation, having to pay only $500 for the boy’s ccxxisebng.55 The release of this female statutory rapist caused no uproar. […]

The day after William Kennedy Smith was accused, he was in every tabloid and on every TV screen; he came into supermarkets and bedrooms — most people saw more of him than of their families. But the identity of his accuser was kept so secret that few men would recognize her if they met her […]

Rape shield laws shield a woman’s sexual past from being used against her In court. They do not shield a man’s sexual past from being used against him in court. When first suggested by feminists, the laws were assumed to be a flagrant violation of our constitutional right to due process (because they shielded one […]

We are now making false accusations of rape more than a method by which women can avoid guilt, avoid blame for broken responsibilities, and exact revenge. We are also creating positive, proactive incentives for false accusa­tions. As when women who accuse men of rape are turned into feminist heroines even before there is a trial […]

When I first heard of date rape allegations and the possibility of false accusations, my personal response was, ‘ Lots of guys don’t know when to take no for an answer, and besides, what would motivate a woman to make a false accusation if there wasn’t at least some truth to it?” But when the […]

To my considerable chagrin, we found that at least 60 percent of all the rape allegations were false. Dr Charles P. McDowell, Supervisory Special Agent, U. S. Air Force, Office of Special Investigations55 When the U S. Air Force investigated 556 cases of alleged rape, 27 percent of the women eventually admitted they had lied […]

^en a woman says she is raped, it is important to listen, support her, believe her, and help her make a transition back to a life of maximum trust. Every human being, when hurting, needs listening and love more than anything else — including having their problem solved. When a man says he has been […]