On the "promotion of casual sex among young people encourages sexual assault" meme....

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2. I agree completely.

There is no connection between a person's decision to engage in consensual, casual sex and another person's decision to rape.

The real problem is attitudes that treat women as pleasure objects instead of people. When you look at a person as less than human (not even an animal--I've seen men give more respect to a dog than women), you believe that women were put here for you, that you deserve to have what you want from them. This attitude manifests itself in major ways like assault and in relatively minor ways like catcalls and everyday objectification. Put together, there is a culture of violence and dehumanization so that men feel that raping someone is acceptable.

This also strikes me as akin to victim-blaming. Don't blame the victim for the decision to have sex with someone--blame the person who assaulted her.

One last thing: of the (college) assaults I've talked with victims (friends) about, all of them were not casual encounters. They were in a committed relationship. Every one of the rapists had a huge ego and treated women like shit. Coincidence? Maybe not.