Learning about such experiences was, unfortunately, an inevitable part of writing “American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus,” my book about sex in college. She was saying something far more provocative: No matter the law, certain strategies for gaining sexual compliance are sometimes allowed, and certain people can get away with sexual coercion and violence more often and more easily than others. MacKinnon, though, wasn’t talking only about the law she was talking about what happened outside the law, too. At the time, rape was quite clearly regulated in some states: you could rape your spouse, just not anyone else. She was writing in 1989, four years before it became illegal to rape one’s spouse in all 50 states. The feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon once argued that rape was not prohibited, but merely regulated. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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