stumpf@homxa.UUCP (P.STUMPF) (12/28/84)
> I avoid making eye contact .. to appear harmless > .. to avoid contact > .. etc. According to an article in the NYTimes 12/27/84 on rape avoidance: avoiding eye contact makes one (appear harmless) and therefore more prone to attack. What does work? - different things for different attackers. After interviewing victims who successfully avoiding rape, and victims who did not, it was found that the successful person was more likely to have used a variety of means (all on the same attacker): yelling, running, kicking and running, reasoning with the atacker. (I know that you can't combine all of these at once.) An improtant point seemed to be to start resisting in the place where the attack begins, as this will be the most public place; once forced to an isolated area, chances of help are severely reduced. -- Pete Stumpf ..!ihnp4!homxa!stumpf US MAIL AT&T-Labs Room WB 1L-331/Crawford Corners Road/Holmdel,NJ 07733 Phone 201-870-7368