Rape or Escape

In last decade or so suddenly a virtually unknown crime was introduced in the United States. This crime was labeled acquaintance rape sometimes known as date rape. Was this a crime or was this an escape for women with loose morals that had sex and then regret? Are women more educated and understand that no means no and if so what did us poor women believe before, that no means yes? The meaning of no didn’t change but the definition of rape did. The definition was changed to meet women’s needs to help them explain their guilt.
I do not dispute that rape is a horrible experience and that it should be punished with the harshest punishment available. I do however, as a woman, dispute the fact that women were not intelligent enough to know ten or twenty years ago that if a women said no they did not mean yes.
In a Ms. Magazine publication in 1985, Koss asked women to look at their situations again and read the fine print about would be c...