Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

When the mates discover them in coitus with other males, orseem about to discover them, the females may cease their sexualactivities and attack the new male partners. A high proportionof the human “rape” cases which we have had the opportunityto examine involve something of the same motifs. 68When not screaming rape to propitiate the angry baboon, thefemale may scream rape by way of explanation to her parents. InSex Offenders, Kinsey’s disciples remember his deep insight into thisorigin of rape:As Dr. Kinsey often said, the difference between a “good time”and a “rape” may hinge on whether the girl’s [sic] parents wereawake when she finally arrived home. 69In the main, Kinsey held that it was the social valuation of coitusthat turned it into rape— especially the woman’s attitude toward anact that was the same whether called coitus or rape; meaning notthat coitus as practiced is a form of rape, but that rape is amisrepresentation of coitus. Harm to the female had no significancefor Kinsey:The disturbances which may sometimes follow coitus rarelydepend on the nature of the activity itself, or upon its physicaloutcome. An occasional unwanted pregnancy, a rare instance ofvenereal disease, or a very rare instance of physical damage areabout the only undesirable physical after-effects. 70Harm , like rape, is mostly a figment of the female imagination.Who would compare the inconvenience of unwanted pregnancy(especially at the time of contraband birth control and illegalabortion, when Kinsey wrote) or venereal disease (commonlyundiagnosed in the female and thus disabling, when Kinsey wrote)or the maimed and battered bodies of raped or abused women(undiscovered by Kinsey, despite his objective methods and thousandsof interviews) to the tragic situation of the male who isdisturbed or imprisoned or even killed merely for using his naturalsexual capacity? Harm to the female can have an authentic meaning