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Originally Posted by Gilda
Rape is just short of murder as a way of exerting control, another word for power, over another person. Sex is, of course, an element of rape, but the question becomes why the rapist chooses rape as the means of gaining sexual satisfaction.
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As ugly as rape might be, it's a million miles from murder.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
A partner isn't even necessary to get the physical stimulation and release that comes with sex.
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It's not the same unfortunately. You can masturbate all you want, it doesn't take the edge off.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
Partners are readily available in most instances, either willing partners or prostitutes. So what leads someone to choose rape instead of a more socially acceptable form of release? What is the attraction, the thing that makes it different from paying someone or picking someone up in a bar for a one night stand?
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As a male, I can inform you, as can most men on here, that female sexual partners are not always readily available. Hence, a truly hard up man can be a dangerous thing.
Prostitutes cost money, and there are lots of hard up guys out there who are either cheap, or can not afford a call girl as frequently as desired.
In wars for example, rape is common place. At the end of WW2, Russian soldiers raped the women of Germany at will. In Berlin for example there were an estimated 2 million rapes in the spring of 1945. That was a case where normal human behaviour was right out the window. It wasn't about power, if it was about power, the Russian soldiers could simply have killed the women in an instant and no questions asked. We humans walk a very fine line between so called civilized behaviour and into the heart of darkness.
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Originally Posted by Gilda
Ordinarily we have sex with a partner because there is something more to that than just the physical sensations. There's a connection of some kind. It may be a power connection, going either way--the ability to convince someone you find attractive to have sex with you is a form of power, more subtle than brute force, but a form of power nonetheless.
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No, for men, sex can very very easily be JUST about the physical sensations. There doesn't have to be anything other than the fact that it feels very good.