(July 12, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(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.
Every culture regards rape as a taboo? In Islam rape is a crime practiced by women and punished by women, marital rape is legal... I don't think all cultures condemn rape entirely. Just look at India and the number of rape crimes, do you think it's random? Certainly not, a culture of patriarchy and submission is there.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
