Quote:
|
Originally Posted by tesla69
Doesn't this imply then that rape is part of a natural range of sexual expression and male gratification need and thus acceptable?
Sex implies consent. Anything else is violence and oppression. I think it legitimizes rape when you say it is a sexual act. Perhaps psychologically there is a transference of libido, but I still don't see it as 'sex', that would be a disease or pathology you are describing. Tumours absorb nutrients from the blood and grow in the body, but its a CANCER, not a new body part! The rapist may or may not get satisfaction out of the act, but there is no consent, and I don't think its useful to refer to it as sexual. Just because the genitals are involved doesn't automatically make it sexual in my book...
And really, it is a terrorism.
Historically, rape has been used as a tool of oppression and control...Royalty would rape virgin brides as an act of social control.
|
Rape is Sexual, it has to be logically due to the fact that a male has to be arosed in order for it to happen. Certainly from a Freudian or Psychodynamic perspective violent and sexual urges are part of the same component. We can say that repression of natural consentual sex can lead to a violent manifestion. Its not about legitimizing rape its about understanding the mindset in order to prevent it. I can not believe we still live in a society that thinks there is something pure/noble/holy/enlightened about abstaining from a natural human function. As we have seen no good can come of it. Im not trying to mount an argument against faith, its just I disagree with this particular element.