Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (101 page)

Association's definition of a sex crime; Def rancis, pp.
2
5-26. core sample represented a fraction: DeFrancis, p. 37.

actual incidence probably twice reported incidence:
Ibid .

major findings: DeFrancis, pp. vii, 66. specific findings: DeFrancis, pp. vii, 68-69. arrests and prosecutions: DeFrancis, p. xi.

Footnote,
New York State legislature kept corroborative requirement for cases of assaults against children: David A. Andelman, "Assembly Votes to Drop Rape Corroboration Rule," New
York
Times, Jan. 15,

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emotional damage to child victim: DeFrancis, pp. x, 152-179.

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". . . some parents projected blame on the child": DeFrancis, p. 160.

four-year-old played similar "game": Def rancis, pp. 160-16i. careened into promiscuity: Def rancis, p. 162.

29 became pregnant: DeFrancis, p. x.

profile of the adult offender: DeFrancis, pp. 66-70. Amir showed median age of twenty-three: Amir, p. 52.

Footnote, case studies of prostitutes unearth accounts of childhood rape: Jacob and Rosamond Goldberg,
Girls on
City
Streets, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1935, pp. 56, 58, 103, 112, 136; John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957, p. 21; Charles Winick and Paul M. Kinsie,
The
Lively Commerce, Chicago: Quadrangle, 1971, pp. 52, 54-55; Harold Greenwald,
The
Call
Girl,
New York: Ballantine, 1958, pp. 33, 110-111, 112, 192, 194, 201, 203, 225.

Footnote, pimp: "The majority of girls I've gotten": "New York: White Slavery, 1972,"
Time,
June 5, 1972, p. 24.

Footnote, Pimps understand rape as method to "turn out" likely teen-age candidate: See Martin Arnold, "13 Accused Here of Tor turing Girls to Force Them into Prostitution," New York
Times,
Apr. 6, 197i.

Brooklyn-Bronx study, only 10 percent involved more than one offender: DeFrancis, p. 66.

". . . more than one member of a household":
Ibid .

Gebhard on father rapists: Gebhard, pp. 248, 270.

Washington State Supreme Court decision: Time, Dec. 25, 1972,

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4i.

9.
THE MYTH OF THE HEROIC RAPIST

Greek myths:
I
have relied on H.
J.
Rose,
A
Handbook of Greek Mythology, New York: Dutton paperback, 1959.

"A shudder in the loins": W. B. Yeats, "Leda and The Swan." (Collected Poems of
W. B.
Yeats, New York: Macmillan, 1954, pp. 211-212.)

Graves has suggested: Robert Graves,
The
Greek
M yths,
New York: Braziller, 1957, p. 56 n.

others have elaborated: See Ludwig Eidelberg,
The
Dark Urge, New

York: Pyramid, 1961, p. 147.

"Of rape the Arapesh know nothing": Margaret Mead, Sex and Temperament
in
Three
Primitive
Societies ( 1935 ) , New York: DeU, 1968, p. 110.

Among the violent Mundugumor: Mead, p. 219.

latmul headhunters: Margaret Mead, Male and Female, New York: Morrow, 1949, p. 52.

Plains Indians: Margaret Mead, The Changing Culture of an Indian

Tribe ( 1932 ), New York: Capricorn, 1966, pp. 91-<)2.

Mundurucu: Robert F. Murphy, "Social Structure and Sex Antago nism," Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 15 ( 1959), pp. 89-<)8.

Tapirape rape observed by Wagley: Murphy, p. 94.

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"The Yanomamo themselves": Napoleon A. Chagnon, Yanomamo,
The
Fierce People, New York: Holt, Rinehart, i968, p. 123. anthropological study of rape among the Gusii: Robert A. LeVine, "Gusii
Sex
Offenses: A Study in Social Control," American Anthro pologist, Vol.
6i,
No. 6 (Dec.1959), pp. 965-<)90.

rape and abduction of Sicilian women: Peter Kayser, "Situationer Women," Reuter, Rome, Aug. 7, 1973.

current rape rate for certain American cities actually exceeds the Gusii's: See Table 5, Uniform Crime Reports, 1973, pp. 77
ff.
For a more complete listing of these cities, see my p. 185 and correspond ing source note.

condottieri in Renaissance Italy: G. Rattray Taylor, Sex in History, New York: Vanguard, 1954, p. 138.

Malatesta raped the Duchess:
J.
R. Hale, ed., Renaissance Venice, Totowa, N.
J.:
Rowman
&
Littlefield, 1973, p. 133.

samurai in modem Japanese /ornography: Richard Halloran,
"Pi
casso's 'Erotic' Prints Exhibite in Tokyo, Af ter a Little Censorship," New York Times, June 20, 1973, p. 2.

"The ravages of the Bold Bucks": Christopher Hibbert, The Roots of Evil, London: Weidenfeld
&
Nicolson, 1963, p. 45.

"One of them was complaining about the number of female writers": Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933 ) , New York: New Direc tions, pp. 33-34.

". . . tang of rape": Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953) , New York: NAL Signet, 196o, p. 127.

"A man's highest job in life":
As
quoted in Harold D. Lasswell,

Power and Personality, New York: Norton, 1948, p. 43.

"When you find a convenient place": Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (1186), trans. from the Latin by John Jay Parry, New York: Norton, 1969, p. 1;0.

Chretien,
"If
a knight found a damsel":
As
quoted in Robert Brif fault,
The
Mothers, New York: Macmillan, 1927, Vol. 3, p. 404.

Sir Gawain ravished Gran de Lis: Ibid.

"To judge from contemporary poems":
Ibid
(quoting Traill and Mann) .

rapacious knight and screaming lady: Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, III, 5 ( Eugene Vinaver, ed.,
The Works
of Sir
Thomas
Malory, Oxford: Clarendon, 1967, Vol. 1, p. 103).

Malory's rape charge discovered: Edward Hicks,
Sir Thomas
Malory: His Turbulent Career, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928, pp. 25-26, 96, 105.

". . . double charge of rape was manifestly absurd": Kittredge intro duction to Hicks, p. viii.

convinced that Malory had been a faithful husband: Hicks, p. 56. "piling on the agony": Hicks, p. 53.

". . . Joan Smyth . . . Potiphar's Wife": Hicks, p. 57.

Gilles de Rais: Thomas Wilson, Blue-Beard, New York: Putnam, 1899; A. L. Vincent and Clare Binns, Gilles de
Rais: The
Original
Bluebeard ,
London: Philpot, 1926.

confessed to influence of Caligula, who "sported with children": Vincent and Binns, p. 42.

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Role of Charles Perrault: Wilson, p. xiii. Perrault's Mother Goose stories, based on folk material, were published in
1697.

Gilles de Rais and Dean Allen Carll: "The Mind of the Mass Murderer," Time, Aug.
27, 1973,
p.
56.

scenes in which men "do it" to men verboten in heterosexual pornog raphy: Frankly, I learned this from some acquaintances, down on their luck, who briefly turned out the stuff for money, but for those who prefer
a
more proper citation: The Report of The Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Washington.
U.S.
Government Print ing Office, Sept.
1970,
p.
115.