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Rape has always been viewed as one of the most abhorrent of crimes. The new cate- gory of date or acquaintance rape expands the definition to cover a multitude of situa- tions ,in'which, as the editors of Acquaint-ance Rape: The Hidden Crime (1991) put it, "verbal or psychological coercion" is used to "overpower" the woman. Over-coming a woman's resistance with words, Podhoretz observes, "has in the past been universally known as seduction."
But to many feminists,...