HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pocket Watch, John Vanderlyn, Jane Mccrea
19 Apr 2018
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Able to coerce sex with impunity if of high social standing. Man looks interested + pulling on her dress. Man is buttoning his pants + is now disinterested. Woman pushes man away in the first. In the second woman is all over him. *this expresses 18th century colonial view towards sexual relations. Woman are supposed to resist at first (expected to) If women are always expected to say no -> hard to distinguish when she means. Sexual relations are meant to be antagonistic. Was concerned normal for men to use force in order to get women to consent. Sense that you can never know if women consented. Do not want to convict people that they like. Virgin would be believed -> she does not have sex + can believe her history of not having sex. Women accusing men of rape expected to prove they were not promiscuous. Rape def: carnal knowledge by force and against her will .
