"rape is about power not sex"

[BiCuriousGeorge]

am i the only one who thinks that this statement is just silly? there are a lot of different types of rape, and the vast majority don't consist of some guy lurking in a stairwell for 8 hours. if you ask me, i think that the vast majority of rapes are almost entirely about sex.

[4_2_it]

At least your title is accurate.

[XXXNoahXXX]

ummm no.

rape is about dominating someone. showing them who is boss.

it is not just about getting off.


PS- This thread sucks.

[BiCuriousGeorge]

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ummm no.

rape is about dominating someone. showing them who is boss.

it is not just about getting off.


PS- This thread sucks.

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that's some deep 3rd level thinking you got going there, clown.

[hiho]

anyone have any good links to porn?

[goofball]

I always assumed that it was the dominating someone and showing them who's boss was what got the rapist off.

[wmonfor]

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ummm no.

rape is about dominating someone. showing them who is boss.

it is not just about getting off.


PS- This thread sucks.

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that's some deep 3rd level thinking you got going there, clown.

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no, it was pretty straight forward.

P.P.S. - This thread sucks.

[Propertarian]

You are correct; don't listen to those who are just spouting off the faulty conventional wisdom who tell you otherwise:

Herbert Gintis's (behavioral science professor) review of a book on rape:

" Thornhill and Palmer (TP) review tons of evidence on the nature of rape. The plusses of the book are (1) they show that rape is a sexual act directed at obtaining pleasure rather than being an expression of male power; (2) they show that as predicted by evolutionary theory, males are evolutionarily adapted to rape, whereas females are not. These are terribly important facts, and they go against the accepted wisdom in contemporary sociology and some brands of feminism; but the accepted wisdom has no empirical basis whatever, in the authors opinion and mine as well . The minuses of the book will appear trivial to those who believe in the accepted wisdom and are shattered by its demise. But they are important nonetheless. Most important, TP view males as touting up the costs of raping (pleasure, possible reproduction) against the costs (getting caught and punished). If the benefits exceed the costs, the male rapes. This ignores all forms of interpersonal interaction except the brute physical. For instance, the 'cost' of causing harm to an innocent victim, the 'cost' of seeing a victim helpless and miserable because of your actions, the 'cost' of having the self-image as a sexual predator, and the like, are simply not part of their model of human motivation. Yet there is overwhelming evidence that people are self-interested in the way depicted by TP. Males who use TP's cost/benefit analysis are better described as psychopaths or sociopaths rather than normal humans. This is because in the course of our evolution, humans have picked up fundamental prosocial traits. When these are absent in a person, the person is an abnormal, pathological case. In short, an alternative to TP's characterization of rape is that rapists are males who have abnormal personalities (including but not limited to psychopathy) the allow them to act out on urges that all males have but in most are countermanded by basic human sympathies. TP do a disservice to evolutionary theory, which they use to portray humans as a sorry lot of selfish brutes. The fact is that evolution produces morality and beauty, sensitivity and love, just as much as rape, murder, and indifference."

[SNOWBALL]

I don't think rape is purely about sex or purely about power. I think it's usually a mix of the two, in varying proportions.

[TomCollins]

More need for a UBV?