(July 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Maybe the question ought to be are men biologically programed to rape, and if so are there any biological deterrents to that programing? I think the answers are yes, and yes.
[BTW, just to get this out of the way because it's sure to come up and I don't want it to be a gotcha, I was raped at at twelve. It was unusual because he was not a man I knew and I was hiking not walking through a dark and dangerous neighborhood. I don't think this gives me any special insight as to why men rape. I think my particular rapist was opportunistic. I'm also am pretty sure he didn't know I was anywhere near as young as twelve. People asked me what my major was that same year. ]
The thing is men are programed to fuck. And it that regard we are very well programmed. How ever the question shouldn't be phrased are why men rape, but why people rape. Women do rape as well just cases involving men are usually more gratuitously violent. However while the urge to fuck and thus rape is perfectly natural, so is the urge to kill rapists, hence every culture ever conceived has very strong taboos on rape.
So yes the urge to fuck is natural, but so is the urge to protect others from.emotional harm.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
