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In reply to the discussion: Purity Culture Is Rape Culture [View all]redqueen
(115,113 posts)44. They're not. That's a comforting lie.
Most rapes are about a certain type of man's beliefs that his "needs" come before anything else. (Pay attention to how many people here on DU insist that men have a NEED to use women for sex, in all the discussions about prostitution. You will even see the argument that allowing men to pay women to put up with sex reduces the incidence of rape.)
They aren't brutal stranger rapes. They're males forcing their dates/friends/employees/relatives/etc to submit to rape (sex). Getting them drunk so they can rape with them. Coercing them into 'consenting'. Because they want SEX.
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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