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ORIGINAL: Aswad
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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess
I have two herbs in front of me that give exactly the same high and after effects. But one is legal and the other is illegal. Which one do I choose?
Scenario 1: I have two women in front of me. One consents. The other does not. Which one do I fuck?
Scenario 2: I have one woman in front of me. She doesn't consent. Which one do I fuck?
Answer: The one that's most available. For the rapist, in both cases.
You seem to be assuming that the rapist has other options at the time, since s/he prefers consensual sex. But that doesn't follow, as it's not established that other options were available in a time frame compatible with the rapist's capacity for delayed gratification, or even that there were prospects of ever obtaining such gratification. Prostitution may limit the scope of rape, but even that will only affect those whose impulse control and other qualities are such that they can afford to pay for sex, and only the subset that won't feel diminished for "having to pay for it", and if it's illegal, one has to cross the line to do so in the first place (which makes rape comparatively less serious from an egoistical perspective).
It makes every kind of evolutionary sense for a man to experience some degree of growing urgency to have sex when he hasn't had it for a while, as his reproduction depends on having sex. The ones that don't reproduce, don't pass on the trait of holding off. People that have more sex reproduce more, as a rule, and people that reproduce more have a greater part in shaping humanity's future gene pool. Seven hundred and ninety-nine millenia later, selection has occured, and eight hundred millenia later, society has done a 180° relative to the original selection pressures; expect catching up to take some time, since most men do breed when monogamy is the norm and violent death is rare, meaning elimination of undesireable traits will be slow.
You want something, people keep it from you, and eventually you take it anyway, unless you're disciplined enough not to steal.
Sex may be what's desired, and power merely the means, though there may be 'validation' (of power?) involved.
Note that all this applies to non-stranger rape, though I'm sure there's plenty of overlap.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
That is basically a load of bullshit, it is the same crap that has Muslim women bundled up in Burqhas, because otherwise men will get lust and rape them. Some rape scenarios do happen when things get out of hand, in date rape, especially when drinking, it can get out of hand, the girl says no and the guy keeps going, but those are not most cases of rape.
Rape is not an act of being horny, it isn't about lust, it is about anger and rage at the victim, it isn't about getting off. One of the big problems with that, which is why, for example, you have the horrible practice of 'honor killings' in the Mid East where if a girl is raped, she is killed for 'dishonoring' the family, because the assumption was she asked for it. One of the reasons rape shield laws came into being in the US, that forbid defense attorneys from questioning things like a victims sexual history or the way they were dressed, was that evidence came that rape was not about sexual attraction, that it was a crime of violence, not lust, as had been assumed for far too long. The Abrahamic religions were all very big on presenting the image of women as seductress, Eve seducing Adam into sin and so forth, that men can't control themselves and it is a woman's fault, but that is complete utter bs; you can see the result in the Muslim world, where rape happens at very high levels and where the women often ends up a victim twice.
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