Posted by:
vhainya
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Date: November 09, 2010 02:38PM
Uh.. the impact of being raped is much more damaging and long-lasting than getting beat up. Most people would rather be beat up than raped. The violence of a rape is unquestionably worse than any other kind of assault. Most people can get sex if they want it, barring being totally impotent or incapacitated. The target of a specific attacker is often based on an archetypal female whom they visualize as having power over them. This is why serial rapists will go after women who look like their mother, sister, or some other women who emasculated them in some way. These motivations are entirely subconscious and not something they'd directly voice if asked.
If rape were about sexual attraction where are all the women taking their rape as some sort of compliment? You think the rapist thinks the woman should feel complimented for finding her attractive or that he necessarily finds her attractive at all? That you interviewed rapists who found some way to justify his actions and twist their motives into something acceptable after he used his penis as a weapon to dehumanize another person is kind of inconsequential to his actions. You don't see something wrong with that?
Maybe you're just confusing the two very different acts of "using sex as a weapon" and "having sex for pleasure."
Sorry, but it's not an opinion based on a few interviews by one person or started by rumor. This is based on peer reviewed scientific research.
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-3514.55.5.795http://www.springerlink.com/content/x4j54g0h6t426x42/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5W-4602T2X-5K&_user=10&_coverDate=12/31/1986&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6fa0f44563eb91d5884028432d74aa4f&searchtype=a