Date Rape: Another View . . .
Pride magazine, February 1994
There's nothing new about "date rape", but recent widely publicized court cases indicate just how much rape and violence against women there is . . . 
A woman may be interested in sex, and may initiate it, but if she changes her mind for any reason, she has a right to say "no". 
As women's level of power in society has increased, so have our expectations, including those about sex. Speaking out against sex we don't want and insisting on sex we do want has helped change what women are able to demand, for example to have sex with men without penetration. The idea that consent to everything at any time, or that students who chose not to be monogamous, should expect rape, is increasingly unacceptable - among women and men.
Women like Desiree Washington (the accuser in the Mike Tyson rape case) are a new generation of Black women who aren't prepared to put men's needs before their own. And as men are forced to be more aware of women's needs, they are learning more self-control. . .
Professional men rape just as much as working class men, although they are more likely to get away with it. For example, because Mike Tyson had a reputation for violence he couldn't claim respectability like Clarence Thomas, the Black American Supreme Court judge accused by a Black woman co-worker of persistent sexual harassment.
Black boxers have traditionally been heroes in their communities, and many people were saddened by Tyson's downfall. But celebrities or other men who rape should not be immune from prosecution, and Black communities can't afford rapist role models.
Black women have been expected to put up with rape and violence in order to protect the community. but protecting the community has to be seen from the point of view of protecting Black women from rape rather than from protecting rapists.
Sara Callaway, Women Against Rape
Cristel Amiss, Black Women's Rape Action Project