Leonidas -> RE: Thoughts on Rape Play? (7/8/2009 1:57:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Leonidas How often is "often" and where are you getting this information? For that matter, where are you getting any of this information, or is this just "what everybody knows"? Here's one link. I won't debate the topic; it could go on forever. As long as you believe in acting consensual to the women you're with, I'm cool. http://living.oneindia.in/men/he/why-men-rape-psychology.html Yeah, it's not necessary to debate it endlessly. The article that you site here, and other article sited below don't really get into any specifics about the "facts" that you've regurgitated as if they were scientific truth. One source that these articles draw on is a 30 year old book that wasn't based on any kind of systematic, scientific study, rather, it it based on the clinical experience of one man. In other words, what he related in his book are his impressions of why men rape based on what the offenders he was working with told him. There are two problems with that. One is that the offenders that he was working with might not be able to adequately explain why they did it beyond the fact that they felt compelled to, though if you press them for a reason they could probably come up with one. An analogy is asking the sadist at your friendly neighborhood play party why he likes to hurt people. Is it a control thing, is it a power thing, is it cause he got beat up a lot in school and he's taking vicarious revenge on willing submissives? He probably can't tell you, and even if he tries, his answer might not be so accurate. He likes to hurt people. Second problem is that because the work is not "blind" it's almost certainly colored by the preconceptions of the observer (in this case, the psychologist who wrote the book). As he's talking to these offenders, he's going to tend to notice those things that reinforce his pre-concieved notions, and discount or disregard those things that don't. This is a well known problem, and why "blind" studies are the norm in scientific inquiry. Bottom line, I'm fine with you having your own belief system about why rapists rape. I'd just caution you to be a little careful about stating your beliefs as if they were irrefutable fact, though. When it comes to "soft" sciences like psychology, irrefutable facts are pretty hard to come by, and the things that were thought to be a decade ago might be widely discounted ten years from now.
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