Bad sexual desires Christianity's fault?

[thesummerqueen]

Rape is not an act of sexual repression. It is an act of control, violence, and torture in which sex is used as the vehicle to inflict pain on another person, the rapist understanding that it is a way to deeply affect someone, or a way to establish dominance through shame. The last part might be related to the repressive nature of some portions of Christianity and other repressive religions, but only in so far that sex is a possible source of shame thanks to the prevalence of those religions, and because even before those religions it was understood as a deeply intimate act. The rapist is not getting rocks off that he couldn't find in other ways. He or she is stealing something from another person that could be freely given away. It is an act of reducing a person to an object in order to satisfy an internal frustration that may or may not have anything at all to do with sex...because believe me - plenty of rapists get plenty of regular sex.

I suggest you come up with studies to back up these assertions before you make these wild claims in public. While religion certainly leads to repression of natural impulses and ignorance and misguided feelings about sex (such as objectification of women, women not understanding they can say no, etc), it's not limited to Christianity, and requires much more inherent violence and lack of empathetic feelings regardless of religion in order to commit such a heinous act. Rape has existed before Christianity and will exist after it and is far more complicated than just "Christians get sexually frustrated and strike out wherever possible".