On rape culture discussions...

[haele]

118. Rape is a dominance issue, not sex.

Porn or various types of violent erotica has little to do with rape, because a person who has no need to dominate those weaker than him or her can watch/read/experiance porn or various types of erotica without feeling the need to rape. Just as in countries where there is low sociatal stress, violent video games are easily available and cannot be associated with "an increase in violence".

For the most part, the problem is cultural - in cultures where personal life and dignity are casual commodities (i.e., if it can't make money or power for someone, it has no value), rape and other senseless crime that causes injury are common as those with little or no personal power or worth feel the need to take out their frustrations on others.

While true psycopaths are different (and there really is no way of knowing if a psycopath - someone who doesn't feel emotion - intentially wants to causes harm or that harm is a byproduct of them manipulating events to acheive what they think they need to survive), the majority of perpitrators are usually fearful, and don't know or are unable to control their own means of acheiving self-worth. Ultimately, rapists are bullies. They aren't seduced, they aren't "overwhelmed by sexual desire"; they're just bullies who forcibly take and abuse another's body to make themselves feel stronger. There is nothing personal about their victim; they would get as much sexual satisfaction f**ing a mattress.
The actual satisfaction is the fear and confusion, the unwilling submission, they get from their actions.

Haele