Correct my “wrong-headed” beliefs if you can, but I suspect the sexually desperate are more likely to rape. This column presents evidence that sex crimes go down when the internet is introduced.
Right, this evidence is one of the strong pieces of evidence that undermines the entire rape-is-about-power claim. And there’s other evidence for this also (for example, prison systems that allow conjugal visits have lower rape rates than those that don’t(a citation for this claim would be nice. I’ve seen it before but a quick Google search doesn’t turn up anything useful)). But sometimes, it is about power. Indeed, the type of rape being discussed in this context, by someone like Draco is the classic power situation. And when people are raping enemies that’s more or less unambiguously about power.
I think that depends entirely on particulars that should probably not be discussed here—suffice it to say that a male can be raped in multiple ways, just as a female can, and that rape involves emotional/mental pain as well as physical pain.
I imagine rape is way, way, way more painful for girls than for guys.
What!
Oh, wait. You mean rape of males by females without the use of any paraphernalia.
My impression of approximate rape statistics was along the lines of 90%/9%/1% male->female/male->male/female->male. I don’t know where female->female fits.
“Involuntary heterosexual coitus” is the last think of when evaluating the relative expectations of pain.
Right, this evidence is one of the strong pieces of evidence that undermines the entire rape-is-about-power claim. And there’s other evidence for this also (for example, prison systems that allow conjugal visits have lower rape rates than those that don’t(a citation for this claim would be nice. I’ve seen it before but a quick Google search doesn’t turn up anything useful)). But sometimes, it is about power. Indeed, the type of rape being discussed in this context, by someone like Draco is the classic power situation. And when people are raping enemies that’s more or less unambiguously about power.
That’s a good point. However, I think there’s a false equivalence in there.
I imagine rape is way, way, way more painful for girls than for guys.
I think that depends entirely on particulars that should probably not be discussed here—suffice it to say that a male can be raped in multiple ways, just as a female can, and that rape involves emotional/mental pain as well as physical pain.
What!
Oh, wait. You mean rape of males by females without the use of any paraphernalia.
My impression of approximate rape statistics was along the lines of 90%/9%/1% male->female/male->male/female->male. I don’t know where female->female fits.
“Involuntary heterosexual coitus” is the last think of when evaluating the relative expectations of pain.