The Phenomenon

Robbery != Burglary

Robbery is more aggressive and violent and implies confrontation with your victims while burglary intends to avoid the victim completely.

If you are going to go steal for purely economic reasons, you are more likely to go the burglary or petty-theft (as in pickpocketing a guy's wallet) route.

When it comes to rape I also learned that its all about power and not about sex. Most "normal" men I wager have rape fantasies, and they are sexual in nature. They don't act out these fantasies directly though (clarify: they might act them out with a willing partner but they don't go do it for real). When most people imagine rape they would imagine a sexual situation, though im guessing that most of people who think that way would never actually go through with it. That would be why when you think of rape it screams sex at you.

I don't think the psychological reason behind rape = power is all crap "they" made up, more likely "they" are entirely correct. I don't think in an interview with a convicted rapist you get "I was horny" as a reason. If you did some research im sure you will find case studies that support this.

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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.