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In reply to the discussion: What does a world without rape culture look like? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)earlier and more complete education on consent, relationships, and intimacy. But if the goal is preventing rape, then it seems like you might want to focus more of the education on the gender responsible for committing the vast majority of rapes.
And btw, all those guys 'controlling their libido'? Probably masturbating like mad all the time you're not watching them. All while being told by many parents and religious figures that masturbation is a sin and something disgusting, which sets them up for a different set of warped ideas later in life. So if by 'controlling' you simply mean 'not raping women', then yeah, ok, they're 'controlling' it. Your mileage may vary, depending on just how much testosterone is coursing through each individual, of course.
Teen neural structures haven't finished developing in the teens, but the endocrine system is going full blast. (As an added bonus, men also get the joy of losing frontal lobe neurons faster as they age than women - the area of the brain that controls judgment. Now couple this with the fact that the vast majority of politicians are old men...kinda makes you wonder a bit why politics is generally such a mess...)