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

means that force was not used in committing the sexual act. The useof force or its absence is held to be easy to determine because thegirl aged twelve to fifteen is seen to have the sexual characteristicsand awareness of a well-informed adult woman. These girls “aresufficiently developed physically and sufficiently aware of socialattitudes for a man to have to use considerable force or definitethreat if the girl objects to sexual contact. ” 75 The girl is consideredknowledgeable of any male’s sexual intent. She also “knows that inrejecting a sexual advance society is on her side. ” 76 Unlessformidable force was used against her, she is seen to haveconsented. Basically, if the girl is short of bruised and maimed,force was not used. All of the data on harm done to her, remember,are either filtered through the criminal justice system or come fromthe offender. T o the scientists, this does not indicate prejudice toher because society is on her side; the only prejudice is to the male.Proof of the girl’s essential complicity and compliance is inferredfrom the source of the report to the police: “Who reported thesexual behavior to the authorities? The girl herself rarely did sodirectly. Usually the situation was discovered by friends or relativeswho thereupon reported it. The suspicious mother and the garrulousgirl friend are common sources of the offender’s downfall. ” 77T he tragic figure is the male. He has a “downfall. ” The femalesresponsible for the “downfall” are interfering, prudish mothers oryacking girlfriends— eternal troublemakers who babble irresponsiblyto the police. There is no indication that the objective scientistsconsidered the girl, upset and confused, unable to explain an assaulton her, asking for help, or cracking under the stress. Because she isviewed by the objective scientists as an adult woman, even thoughsocially she is a child and even though all females are characteristicallykept ignorant of sex and male genital goals, she has notbeen misused because misuse is implicitly impossible when asexually viable female is used by a male exercising natural sexuality.The presumption is that the girl aged twelve to fifteen fully andknowledgeably consented to the sexual act after which her motheror another troublesome female intruded, causing the “downfall” of ablameless male.