The Battalion
STATE & LOCAL
riday, April 20,1990
Doctor blames exploitation on trust
peaker discusses mystery behind sexual betrayal
y KATHERINE COFFEY
)IThe Battalion Staff
Sexual exploitation occurs when
vomen trust powerful men, whose
ntegrity is frequently taken for
pnted, a psychiatrist from San
? ransisco said at a seminar Thurs-
lay night.
Dr. Peter Rutter, a psychiatrist of
he University of California Medical
school, spoke about how men in
power, such as therapists, doctors,
:lergymen and teachers, betray
ivomen.
“Men feel powerful, but vulnera
ble, when a women’s forbidden /.one
becomes available,” Rutter said.
Rutter, who is also a faculty mem
ber and a chairman of the Ethics
Committee of the C.G. Jung Insti
tute, discussed the mystery of why so
many men in the professional world
engage in crossing the forbidden
/one.
Rutter talked about the sexual in
volvement between men and women
that is the topic in his 1989 book
called “Sex in the Forbidden Zone.”
In Rutter’s book he said, “Seventy
percent of psychiatrists have had at
least one patient w'ho had a forbid
den-zone relationship with a former
therapist, 20 to 30 percent of female
university students have been ap
proached sexually by professors and
13 percent of physicians have sexual
involvement with patients.”
Rutter had experiences of a near
sexual relationship with a female pa
tient about 20 years ago, which was
one of the reasons that lead him to
start writing his book.
“In one moment it seems so easy
to cross the forbidden line, (but)
something holds me back,” he said.
“The ones who have sexual
relationships with patients make
damages to the patients.”
Men who have never crossed the
invisible line, he said, have a sense of
envy for their colleagues who do
have these types of relationships.
“These moral men usually won’t
cross the forbidden line, but they
will make themselves believe that
one day they actually will live out
these fantasies,” he said.
These men generate a view (of
having these relationships) that low
ers resistance of moral men, Rutter
said, and men won’t give up resis
tance until they find other ways to
satisfy themselves.
Rutter also focused on the female
experience and the different stages
they go through after going past the
forbidden zone. Fie said they tirst
grow to trust men and give up con
trol of their boundaries. He said fe
males at the deepest level know' that
destruction is taking place, but they
feel the threat of losing connection
with men.
“This is post traumatic stress the
female often lives with for a long
time, even years,” he said. “They feel
that their original wound is inten
sified and they have a returned state
of woundedness and hopelessness.”
In the first act of sex, Rutter said
the man has destroyed his strength
to help the female and is even more
vulunerable.
Rutter said that men are now
looking for a way out of their own
abusive patterns and that the prob
lem of sexual exploitation can be
helped when people are not passive
bystanders anymore.
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By JAMES LOVE
Special to T he Battalion
A Texas A&M graduate of computer science
was arrested Tuesday when he parked his wheel
chair in front of a Brazos Transit System bus in
protest of treatment of the disabled.
Charles Schoonover, 26, was charged with ob
structing traffic after delaying the bus more than
30 minutes.
Schoonover, who was shot and paralyzed by an
intruder in 1982, said he was protesting that the
B ’ar bus system has no facilities to pick up dis-
citizens.
“They have a special bus system to pick us up,
but reservations have to be made a day in ad
vance and I have no phone,” he said. “Not only
that, but it costs $1 25 to tide it instead of the
standard 25 cents. There should be no reason
why I can’t ride the regular bus.”
Schoonover said he could get on the bus with
no special facility, but the transit system would
not be willing to wait long enough to get him in.
“Last week I was left in the rain at Post Oak
Mall,” he said. “I tried to get on the bus, but
when the driver called in, I specifically heard the
dispatcher on the radio say to leave me there be
cause it would put the bus too far behind sched
ule to wait for me
This is my I ianamnen Square, he said.
Schoonover said he had an appointment last
week with College Station Mayor Larry Ringer to
discuss the matter. He said the mayor refused to
take any responsibility for the situation.
“I just don’t understand how they can plan all
these multi-million dollar projects but can’t let
me ride the regular bus line,” Schoonover said.
John McBeth, administrator of the Brazos
Transit System, said that everything possible is
being done to accommodate the handicapped in
Bryan-College Station.
He said wheelchair lifts are not on any of the
trolleys or buses because they simply do not work
on those vehicles. The problem is money, he said,
and this transit system does not have the budget
power to make any drastic changes.
“What we do have is six handicap vehicles that
operate on a 24-hour basis with trained drivers
that will take them anywhere they wish and pick
them up,” McBeth said. “We ask them for a res
ervation in advance for the convenience of the
passengers since they are usually full. However,
if we have room, we answer immediate requests.”
McBeth, who also is a member of the mayor’s
committee of the handicapped, said Bryan-Col
lege Station is one of only three or four in the
country that even have this sort of taxi service for
the handicapped
‘Austin is the only city in the United States
that has a complete line of buses that are hand
icap ready,” he said. “However, they had to give
up their door-to-door service.”
McBeth said that about half of the hand
icapped want door-to-door service while the
other half would prefer regular line accessibility.
Another problem with the bus line is that many
of the handicapped are severe cases who need
special attention. The more severe handicapped
need the trained assistance of the door-to-door
service, he said, and this would have to be
canceled if the regular bus lines were given
wheelchair lifts.
“Right now it appears that the Bush Adminis
tration is moving toward passing the American
Disability Act which will require accessibility for
the handicapped — in which case we would have
federal funds to help us make the necessary
changes,” McBeth said.
In the meantime, Schoonover said that he
probably will continue his protesting.
“They take my taxes legally, and then won’t let
me ride the bus,” he said. “Am I a human or
not?”
Moving mountains
Stephen Drennan, a freshman agriculture economics major
from Fort Stockton, practices his strokes at the A&M tennis
courts Thursday as a crew overhead builds the new Mount Ag
gie.The old one is being replaced by a parking garage.
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