 The view most commonly identified with feminism in popular discourse is that rape is a crime of “violence, not sex”—that is, a form of assault whose sexual nature is irrelevant, and which is analogous to other violent crimes. While this view has rarely been defended by feminist philosophers, it has been prominent in some feminist anti-rape public education and activism. (One feminist theorist often claimed to have held this view is Susan Brownmiller (1975); see Cahill 2001, 16-28.) Such efforts often seek to challenge views of rape as a “crime of passion,” motivated by the perpetrator’s overwhelming lust (presumably in response to the victim’s sexual attractiveness and/or provocation). Thus, in addition to challenging victim-blaming assumptions, feminists often emphasized rapists’ non-sexual motivations, such as anger and the desire for dominance and control; on this view, the rapist is a violent criminal like other violent criminals, not just a guy seeking sex a bit too vigorously. Similarly, this approach emphasizes that rape victims are real crime victims, not vaguely titillating people who had some overly rough sex and might just have liked it.