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Discussing rape with rapists or can men
change?
Claire Glasman of Women Against Rape
reports ore the findings of her visit to Grendon Underwood Prison
NEW LAW JOURNAL, CRIME, July 14, 1989. p.
969-970
... a rapist at Grendon Underwood Prison invited
Women Against Rape (WAR) to meet men serving sentences for sexual offences
and other crimes. He and others wanted to discuss rape and its effect on
women's lives, using WAR as the '`closest thing" to facing their
victims...
"Several men described their previous - or persisting - view
of women as people with different emotions and needs . . . and as
devious, manipulative and unfeeling.
Mothers, wives,
girlfriends and
other women were there for housework or sex"
... he admitted that he
gave her £12 housekeeping (including for the children) out of £200 pay.
Another described how, when Child Benefit doesn't go far enough, a man
with £50 in his pocket can sometimes buy a woman's consent... One described wanting
to "dump my misery" on someone else...
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