In her book Sexual Personae Camille Paglia offered a different ideological interpretation. Instead of viewing our culture as the cause of rape, Paglia argued that it is the main protection women have against attack. Thus, women can walk down a street unmolested not in spite of Western society, but because of its civilizing impact on men. Generation after generation, men must be educated, refined, and ethically persuaded away from their tendency toward anarchy and brutishness. Society is not the enemy, as feminism ignorantly claims.
Society is woman s protection against rape.
Radical feminism s belief that we live in a rape culture has led to an ever expanding definition of what constitutes rape. Here, the pivotal difference between individualist and radical feminists lies in the concepts of coercion and consent. There is little clarity to what radical feminists deem to be consent and coercion in sex. This type of language has become a common guideline for identifying sexual violence. One of many problems with this definition is its subjectivity.