Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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Time
magazine has published a revealing report
entitled, “When the Date Turns into Rape”:
Susan, now 22 and a college senior, was raped
almost three years ago on a first date. She met
the man in a cafeteria at summer school and
went to his dorm that evening to watch
television news and get acquainted. After 45
minutes of chit chat about national affairs, he
began pawing and kissing her, ignoring her
pleas to stop. “You really don’t want me to
stop,” he said, and forced her to have sex.
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Time’s
report shows how common ‘date-rape’ has
become in western countries: “Date rape,”
according to some researchers, is a major social
problem so far studied mostly through surveys of
college students. In a three-year study of 6,200 male
and female students on 32 campuses, Kentucky
State psychologist Mary Koss found that 15% of all
women reported experiences that met legal
definitions of forcible rape. More than half those
cases were date rapes. Andrea Parrot, a lecturer at
Cornell University, estimates that 20% of college
women at two campuses she surveyed had been
