(May 20, 2010 at 3:34 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Am I right in thinking that homosexual rape is less common? (as homosexuality is less common(?)) And if it's got nothing to do with sexuality and only power, I wonder why this is? (if this is indeed the case).

I accept that studies have been done that rape is indeed about power - I just would like to know why gay rape is less common then, assuming that is the case.

EvF

Check out prison stats.

That wouldn't be a very unbiased pool due to the selective availability of the opposite sex.

Tack is right.

(May 20, 2010 at 8:48 pm)tackattack Wrote: That wouldn't be a very unbiased pool due to the selective availability of the opposite sex.

He said gay rape, he didn't say anything about unbiased sources

Dotard, you can't just write off the ideas about rape having to do with power as 'psycho-babble', when a lot of that 'psycho-babble' has been thoroughly researched and tested, repeatedly. It's been shown to hold a great deal or merit.

Sure I can. Here's my evidence to the contrary;



Dotard's Evidence for the evolution of rape, why it occurs and triggers.

(May 20, 2010 at 11:53 pm)Dotard Wrote: Sure I can. Here's my evidence to the contrary;



Dotard's Evidence for the evolution of rape, why it occurs and triggers.

Blahblah, scientific babble.

I find it humourous that one of the paper's authors is called "Randy".

I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing now, Adrian. Holy shit. xD

(May 20, 2010 at 3:47 pm)binny Wrote: Before I was married my best friend was a gay man. He was raped by a police officer (male). This was an act of power. Needless to say the crime went unreported. I suspect if gay rape is less common it's because it just isn't reported.

Hm. Interesting. Well said.

I also just thought that - perhaps it is also something to do with the fact that men are on average a bit physically stronger and so harder to overpower?

EDIT: Thought I'd also ask a question I just thought of....

One has to be sexually aroused in order to rape, right?

If rape is about power and not sex.... does this mean rapists are only and I repeat only turned on by the power aspect and are completely indifferent to appearance? And if they're completely indifferent to appearance and don't care about it at all then why don't all rapists rape both sexes and of any age?

As for all this "objectification" business.... how can you objectify something when something is by definition a thing and therefore an object already? You cannot objectify what is already an object. And someone, a person, is just a living thing, a living object, of the human species.

So yes women are objects, and so are men, and so is everything physical. Organisms are living things, animals are living things, people are animals and hence living things, and hence things.

EvF