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

who told us of using force or threat or whose official recordmentioned its use. 74Given the excellence of this description of male force, both brutaland subtle (though it omits the direct power of male over female), itis remarkable that the scientists did indeed isolate a category of maleoffenders against female children under the age of twelve in whichthe use of force was not involved. T he information on which theybased the existence of this extraordinary category was supplied bythe offenders themselves or by official records. In these cases,children were not represented by their own counsel, and standardsfor taking and recording testimony from children varied greatly. Insexual offenses against children, quoted above, the first issue is notthe kind or degree of force used, but the fact that force is implicitfor the reasons articulated in the description of force with respect tochildren. In any event, the scientists did not feel obligated todetermine from information supplied by the victims whether or notforce in any of the senses that it properly pertains had been used.T he invisibility of the victim is built into the data by virtue of itssources. N o consideration is given to delineating circumstances thatwould guarantee that force had not been used. T he commitment ofthe scientists here, their sexual imperative as it were, is to create acategory in which females under twelve years of age satisfy the malewithout the use of force on his part. T he issue is not whether thesatisfaction is coital; it is whether it is sexual in any sense, thusestablishing a viable sexual possibility for the adult male in regardto the female child. T he category itself—which defies both commonsense and the clear description of what constitutes force from maleadult to female child— provides a basis for belief that the use of afemale child under twelve by an adult male can, under circumstancesknown only to the authors of Sex Offenders, exclude force as afactor.T he philosophy that permits the invisibility of the victim andinsists on the accuracy of the category and data arrived at by theobjective scientist is more fully explicated in the information onheterosexual offenders versus minors. T he category as defined