Well it must be about sex and violence, otherwise people would just beat each other up.
There is no single theory that conclusively explains the motivation for rape; the motives of rapists can be multi-factorial and are subject to debate. Several factors have been proposed:
anger, a desire for
power,
sadism, sexual gratification,
[21] and evolutionary pressures.
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In
ancient history, rape was viewed less as a type of assault on the female, than a serious property crime against the man to whom she belonged, typically the father or husband. The loss of
virginity was an especially serious matter. The damage due to loss of virginity was reflected in her reduced prospects in finding a husband and in her
bride price. This was especially true in the case of betrothed
virgins, as the loss of
chastity was perceived as severely depreciating her value to a prospective husband. In such cases, the law would void the betrothal and demand financial compensation from the rapist, payable to the woman's household, whose "goods" were "damaged".
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Really? I thought guys will be guys.
In straight culture they make jokes about not bending over in certain (gay) neighborhoods. Ha ha, wink wink, nudge nudge. In
reality, "straight" guys commit the vast majority of rapes -- male and female.
In fact, it is thought that
MOST rapes are male rapes committed by "straight" men. >>
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (1999) estimated that 91% of U.S. rape victims are
female and 9% are male, with 99% of the offenders being male.
[6] In one survey of women, only two percent of respondents who stated they were sexually assaulted said that the assault was perpetrated by a stranger.
[7] Several studies argue that
male-male prisoner rape might be the most common and least-reported form of rape, with some studies suggesting such rapes are substantially more common in both per-capita and raw-number totals than male-female rapes in the general population.
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In 2001,
Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 140,000 inmates in the United States had been raped while incarcerated,
[1] and there is a significant variation in the rates of prison rape by race.
Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc. statistics indicate that there are more men raped in U.S. prisons than non-incarcerated women similarly assaulted.
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