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Picture yourself as a child Do
you recall a special moment you
spent with your parent of the
opposite sex? Did it feel good to
be getting individual attention?
Now imagine your parent
smiling at you. slipping his or
her hand under your clothes
and touching you.
In what she called “a guided
fantasy.” Lisa Miller, of the
Eugene Rape Crisis Network,
opened the third of four
discussions on "Rape! What
;You Don't Know Hurts... "
Sponsored by the Eugene
Rape Crisis Network, the ses
sion focused on incest— its ef
fects on children, how to recog
nize it. what to do about it and
how to prevent it.
Miller, group leader of the
network, focused her remarks
on father/daughter incest. In
cest is any situation "when the
child is used for stimulation”
and pointed out that sexual in
tercourse is not a necessary
prerequisite, she said.
Miller refuted a list of
incest-related myths suggested
by the 15-member audience.
The list included beliefs that
incest is rare, that it occurs only
in families of low income or poor
education, that only parents
who are perverted or who have
poor sex lives would com
mit such an act and that chil
dren are seductive and "ask for
it."
Seventy-five reported Lane
County incest cases means in
cest is not "rare,” Miller said.
The actual number probably is
even higher, because incest is
"tremendously not reported,
not known about,” she said.
Many cases go unreported
because the victims are threa
tened, trust their parents too
much or are too young to ex
press their problems. Miller
said
She also denounced the idea
of the "seductive" child
“I don’t think it’s possible for
the child to be an equal partner
and to desire sex for sex," Miller
said. "She may want affection
and goes along with the sex to
get what she needs.”
There are clues to recogniz
ing incest, although "it’s pretty
hard to tell because the kid is
probably not going to tell you,”
she said. For example, parents
should be suspicious if their
child firmly resists spending
time with a certain family
member
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, Prevention is "the place to
really make an effort,” Miller
said. Teaching children
vocabulary —“even about the
sexual parts of their body”— is
important because it teaches
them what is and isn’t normal in
parent/child relationships.
The last session in the rape
prevention series, considering
the topic of sexual harassment,
will be held Thursday evening
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Gilbert
242.
Harassment hearing set
A proposed University sexual harassment rule is the subject of
a public hearing today requested by the ASUO.
Interested persons may present views or data concerning the
rule either orally or in writing at the hearing, scheduled for 3 p.m. in
EMU Room 101, says Muriel Jackson, the hearing officer and
University assistant for administration.
The proposed rule states "sexual harassment of students,
faculty or staff by other members of the University community is
unacceptable conduct and will not be tolerated."
Sexual harassment is defined as “any sexual advance, request
for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual
nature when submission to such conduct is made a condition of
employment or academic experience or when such conduct
creates a hostile or offensive working or academic environment."
Copies of the proposed rule are available for review at several
campus locations, including: the president's office, 110 Johnson
Hall; the ASUO president's office, Suite 4. EMU; and the University
library's catalog information service.
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