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Lust may be a factor in some rapes, but power is a bigger stimulus. Perhaps you are confusing a lust for power with sexual arousal and desire.

No. I'm saying that rapists can confuse lust for power with sexual arousal. People seem to have no problem grasping that people who are not rapists can have fetishes such as feet, leather, and even being bound yet seem unwilling to consider that people who are rapists may have a more malevolent fetish. If it is possible to imagine someone being turned on by being dominated, why it isn't it possible to imagine someone being turned on by dominating. And if it is possible to imagine someone being turned on by dominating in a consentual relationship, why is it impossible to imagine someone being turned on be dominating in a non-consentual situation? S&M is a two-sided coin and the "S" side of the coin doesn't need the mirror "M" if consent is not an issue.

Many rapists are unable to function sexually during the rape.

I'd like to see evidence of that. Post rape exams looking for semen and forced vaginal entry would seem kinda pointless if the rapist were not aroused and not ejaculating. Are you telling me that most post-rape exams turn up empty or are pointless? Some rapists choose their victims by opportunity rather than any physical characteristic. The same rapist may attack women of different ages, simply because he can.

I'm sure there are some rapists for whom the act is entirely violent and not sexual in any traditional sense. I simply doubt that such rapes are the norm. I find it difficult to imagine a man becomming erect enough to force his way into an unwilling and unaroused woman if there was not some sexual arousal involved. Men do not walk around with erections 7X24. Not without Viagra, anyway. And while some men may use objects to rape, I get the impression that it out of frustration or necessity more than choice.

You use words such as "dominating," "frustration," and "necessity."

These are evidence that the act of rape is not for sexual gratification, but for the purpose of power, to relieve frustration and anger.

There is often no ejaculation, and no evidence of such at the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam. (I've done those exams and talked with women who were raped.) There's lots of information available on the internet.

Rapists do not act out of arousal or lust for sexual gratification with the same regularity that theives steal for valuable property. They're more like vandals who break in and destroy property.