Monday, August 27, 2007

Cosmopolitan magazine: Gray Rape

According to the article 'hook up' culture and women's new sexual 'aggression' has created a new kind of rape -- 'gray rape' -- "a kind of sex that falls somewhere between consent and denial."

"It seems the author completely made up the term. None of the 'experts' cited use it. There is no clinical or even criminal justice term called, 'gray rape.' If this term gets popularized, particularly by the same political segment that attacked the documentation of acquaintance rape in the eighties, victims will be even less likely to come forward or seek help. "

I've often heard this from writers at Cosmopolitan, that they are given conclusions to articles by the editors and told to go out and write a story to support it. Why? Making people afraid sells magazines.

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