“Judging by news and entertainment media, the problems of date and acquaintance rape have reached crisis proportions in recent years. A search in the database Nexus turns up 54 mentions of date or acquaintance rape in the New York Times during the past two decades - nearly half of them in the last year. Television shows such as “A Different World”, “21 Jump Street” and numerous made - for - TV movies have featured date - rape themes. Oprah, Phil, Geraldo, and Sally have each taken a crack at the subject” writes Gutman (1) Because of this ever-increasing problem there has also been an expansion on discus

In about three to four boring pages, Tannen attempts to dissect the communication problems between couples. She explains that these differences can even be seen in children as “boys and girls tend to play with children of their own gender, and their sex-separate groups, have different organizational structures and interactive norms” (Tannen 7). Although there is an apparent communication discrepancy between same-sex discussions and opposite-sex discussions, this has nothing to do with date rape. Tannen is simply discussing a nonviolent communication problem between the sexes, and how intimate relationships are affected by it. Jacoby and Paglia are discussing a very violent and serious crime and disecting reasons for it’s all too frequent occurrences.

Camille Paglia’s essay “It’s a Jungle Out There” and Susan Jacoby’s

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