RE: Differing degrees of rape?
October 19, 2014 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2014 at 12:11 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 18, 2014 at 11:47 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(October 18, 2014 at 10:49 pm)Losty Wrote: "Lets flip the lid so to speak. If a girl starts sucking off a boy thats asleep or drunk, is she a rapist to the same extent if the roles are reversed?"
There's no "to some extent" sex without consent is rape. Period.
OK then, so does the rape act against a man repulse you to the same extent?
Would a woman face the same punishment as a man? Should she?
Does the opinion of men as a separate sex hold any sway? Meaning, if a woman broke into my house and raped me I would feel icky maybe, but I would probably be more furious with her presence than her sex act. I certainly in good conscious wouldn't feel justice would be served if her life was ruined for the act. Certainly not for a long prison sentence.
Why would men be so much more compassionate over a physical sexual intrusion than women?
I think there's a biological function at play here. A woman might ovulate 450 times in her life (12 times a year times 37 years, perhaps long but trying to be fair). A man produces tens of millions of sperm per day.
Further, a woman has to carry the results of a rape pregnancy at least a short time, and in the days before modern health care, she either carried to term, or had an unsupervised abortion. Both options carried serious risks for the woman, and even surviving childbirth, the woman then had a massive drain on her resources without the concomitant of a mate helping to procure food, clothing, and shelter.
I think men write off being sexually used, or violated, because biologically, the penalty is not nearly so heavy for us.