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I am so heading to eLuxury. Wasn't it the first "luxury" brand web retailer? I remember it being around before Net-A-Porter, I think. Kind of sad. But if it means I can get discounted stuff, also kind of awesome.
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It's really not that they're hardwired to violate another person's body, and that women are hardwired to be passive. At Abu Ghiraib, Pvt. England was in a power position over male prisoners. Although it should be noted in her case that she was among many men who were also torturing prisoners, and that the orders to do so came from much higher up. Often as it happens with the military, one low-ranking soldier gets the book thrown at them.
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great article, but there isn't a whole lot of good evidence suggesting women's orgasms help conception. A good book on the subject is The Case of the Female Orgasm. Best guess is the female orgasm was a chance of evolution that turned out very well for us.
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His notion of a "trigger" or switch isn't new: One need only refer to The Manchurian Candidate. I'm sure there's an example in Greek mythology, too, but it escapes me. Point is, it's an interesting theory, but if such a "switch" existed, we'd have probably exploited it by now.
If you want to make a man a rapist, condition him to believe his victim is less than human and that rape is a normal way of interacting with said victim. Sounds simple, but people, and people in groups, do not always behave so simply. Especially if there is interaction from the outside of the man's core group that counteracts the group's perspective of the victims.
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There may or may not be violence aside from this, but the bottom line is that rape is violence.
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violence is the will of one being being forced upon another person and that may be physical or psychological.
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But, also, I disagree. Acquaintance rape is not inherently less violent than stranger rape, and it doesn't resemble consensual sex more closely. The myth that it does is really damaging.
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Sometimes rape is about power. Sometimes it's about sex. Most of the time it's about both.
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I find it difficult to believe the average rapist isn't getting some sexual pleasure if he is able to achieve and maintain an erection during the rape. I think it needs to be considered as having many aspects...
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Yes, rape has to do with sex. The sexual aspect is the reason someone would choose rape over beating someone up. But it isn't mostly about sex. You can buy sex, you don't have to go to the trouble of raping anyone.
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If rape were only about power, more men would simply mug you or shoot you. There is an element of sex -- though in many cases, it can just be a means to an end. Man thinks: I control or take power over a woman by forcing her to do something she doesn't want.
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I really don't think that the a genuine belief that the woman was consenting is that pervasive, but I do think discussions like this have a lot to do with society's discomfort about rape. There seems to be a desire to humanize the rapists as decent guys who just got their signals crossed rather than guys who didn't care if their sex partner was unwilling or unconscious.
If you look at the original articles, there are some really interesting comments. "Stephanie" describes having to basically fight a guy off- eventually he backed off but he ignored her when she said no and struggled against him. Another commentator "John" refers to this as "hugging against her will" and makes a big point that he eventually stopped, pretty much missing her point. I think this is a fair more common scenario and obviously non-consensual than she was too drunk to consent but he didn't know.
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The problem is not men, it's the breeding of cultures like this.
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