Contrary to what some people may believe about me, I really am not much into being politically correct, and actually find non PC comments refreshing. I think what concerned me about your writings about rape, however, was some implied (by me, probably) message that women play some role in their own rapes by being attractive, or seductively dressed. While it is definitely accurate that most women who are raped are in the age group where women are at the peak of their sexual attractiveness, certainly women into their nineties are raped as well, so I suspect rage and powerlessness as strong motivating factors.
Rapes in prison, and by conquering armies, are of course more complex. I did find this little url interesting in the sense that it jogged my memory about what victims women have been historically, and still today in most of the world. When millions of women still have their sex organs sliced up and butchered in female genital mutilations, and brides are still being burned in places like India, certainly the issue of men needing to feel powerful and dominating over women seems crucial to understanding male behavior:
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