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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Erasing Rape By Paula Kamen According to author Katie Roiphe, acquaintance rape is just a term radical feminists use to describe a night that you regret. She made this argument in a New York Times op-ed in 1991, and made it again in a New York Times Magazine cover story (6/13/93), labeled "Rape Hype." The magazine piece was an excerpt from her new book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus, which was sympathetically reviewed by the Times' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (9/16/93), who praised Roiphe's "courage." It was reviewed again (favorably) on the front page of the New York Times book review section (9/18/93)--perhaps the most coveted piece of newsprint in publishing. Roiphe's thesis is that the prevalence of rape is exaggerated by feminists, who are motivated more by fear of sex than by a real threat of sexual violence. In her book and in her "Rape Hype" article, she focuses on a study of sexual assault that found, as she describes it, that "one in four women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape." Roiphe criticizes this study in an attempt to suggest that rape is not common on campuses, and at the same time to argue that feminists have exaggerated its frequency by using an overly broad definition of rape. The actual study that Roiphe's critique focuses on, however, provides convincing evidence that neither of these arguments is true. In her writings, Roiphe gives no indication of having read the study she attacks, citing instead polemical attacks on the study published in right-wing periodicals. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1218 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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