What do you believe is the root cause of rape?
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This comment was by Mcshosberg in reference to the post How to Avoid Rape: New York Prison’s Powerful Welcome Video to New Inmates
Rape is about power and control and has nothing to do with clothing. On the outside, people might blame it on revealing clothing or sex appeal when it’s not about that. What it’s really about is the rapist’s feeling of inadequacy, and the need to overcompensate.
An attractive female often is a trigger for guys who hate women because they feel inadequate and powerless, therefore she must be punished, dominated, humiliated. In prison it’s more like establishing a pecking order, to show dominance. Often the men are not gay or even attracted to men.
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Rape is a criminal form of sex. Sex is one of the most intimate and personal things a person can engage in. Rape therefore is matter of forcing a person to engage in one of the most intimate and personal activities of all. And this goes for nearly all rape. Inside prison. Out of prison. And it even holds regardless of the genders of the rapist and the victim so its not like male against female rape is an attack on her gender while male against male rape is just a power play and female on male and female on… Read more »