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In reply to the discussion: Purity Culture Is Rape Culture [View all]LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)17. Just to be clear
I don't think it's necessary to prove that rape isn't about lust, suggesting if it is, women hold some responsibility for their own rape.
It's like saying a rich person should not display their wealth because if they are robbed, they are responsible for their own robbery. And then a group of people try to prove that robbing the rich is about power rather than desire to take their wealth.
I could see a man raping a woman he desires sexually if she will not consent, but that doesn't mean she is responsible even if he lusted after her.
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How do we know that all instances of rape are about power and control rather than lust?
LittleBlue
Jan 2013
#7
Even if it begins in lust, it is still about having the power to MAKE you have sex
Kurovski
Jan 2013
#9
If it were only about lust, why do men who have wives and/or girlfriends rape?
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#12
may one enquire why it is so important for you to insist that rape must be about lust rather than
niyad
Jan 2013
#24
cause the male lust is oh so powerful over female lust, that it requires they rape? nt
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#34
to which post are you referring? the one to which I was replying, or the one to which I linked?
niyad
Jan 2013
#45
yes, I know that it was written as satire, but, thanks to the writer's skill, caught the mentality
niyad
Jan 2013
#48
about the "tossing the rape apologist accusation around in so casual a manner debases its
niyad
Jan 2013
#33
to which post are you referring, because nothing in post #20 talks about women civilizing men.
niyad
Jan 2013
#46
Whose lust doesn't die when the other person is crying and trying to get away?
gollygee
Jan 2013
#25
The core of world religions, the non-spiritual, earthly, physical core is decaying.
Kurovski
Jan 2013
#8