Yes. The above guest post in my name is a fraud - thanks for the PM, David. I never post as a guest, or at least not during the last several years. I used to go by some different names before settling on the one the simple sensible one. Back in '97, I was apparently Rastrelnikov - I think that was from a D&D character. Some aspects of lost youth are not mourned :-) I'm glad to see Joe Offer is still here. Amazing dedication. For a while I had a sig based on something Art Thieme? wrote:

The song isn't good because it's old; it's old because it's good.

Falling back on topic...
Ed T: Thanks for the heads-up regarding "sexual assault" in Canada. Crazy, vague term that makes women more afraid, and men more able to easily dismiss statistics as probably mostly bum patting.

David: Your restrictions on guest postings seem good to me, but I remember Dick is much more worried about censorship than I am. I just ignore postings by guests.

The year before my mom died of cancer, she started talking about all sorts of things. One thing that completely blew me away was that one of my cousins was the child of an unreported rape by a policeman. Looking at that cousin, it makes sense. But worse, is my niggling suspicion that maybe, just maybe, there was no rape. I really like that aunt. She's wonderful. But if I can have doubts about what she confided to her much-more prudish older sister, what must victims face in the courtroom?

This is a real blackness-in-the-hearts-of-men topic. I hated seeing the oft-repeated mantra: rape is solely a crime of dominance and aggression. I can send off a copy of the Why Men Rape article to anyone who requests it. And I'm getting out of this thread, 'cause it leaves me feeling upset. (Wimp = me today)