Ok, I do not get this mind set of some men (or alleged men) that participate in group rape.
A single man with one woman ok, disgusting but it makes more sense than the group thing.
How is that men will stand there and watch the violation of a woman, and participate knowing that their friend just violated the woman......is that some how exciting?
As a woman rape is so repugnant to make me ill, if the guys out there understand (no need to publicly state they understand, and beleive me I do not beleive for one instance that men on FR would participate) still they might understand.
I asked my husband and his response was that “some men are just animals”.
“......is that some how exciting?”
It is called ‘homosexual desire’. Ego dictates that it be veiled by the presence of a female.
Perhaps. In the end, though, the animal wasn't trained out of them. Humans must be taught to love and respect other humans. It's not innate.
You need to know that young men in groups can be pressured by peer pressure to do just about anything. What happens is that one guy does something wrong. Knowing he is guilty alone, he is going to call other guys, chicken, coward, pussies, babies — anything to make the other guys afraid of their own status in the group. The pressure that brings to bear on the psyche of the guy who doesn’t want to do the wrong thing, is often enough to get him to join the crowd.
Add in “mob mentality” where “everybody does it”, and it is not at all hard for me to understand how men will go from being onlookers to being coerced participants. I’m not obsolving them of guilt. They are guilty as hell. I’m just telling you how the guys who wouldn’t normally do the wrong thing will be coerced into joing the guys who do the wrong thing first.
There is a reason I was so unpopular in high school. I did my own thing and I did not submit to any preer pressure. So I didn’t join the pack mentality and of course I was always left out and teased.
Some people have been conditioned to not see the other person as a person, but to see them as a conduit to meet their wants and desires and needs.
I really can’t understand rape, and gang rape makes even less sense. I wasn’t what you’d call sexually moral when I was a heathen, but I never, ever considered doing anything violent to get sex. Of course, some people say rape has nothing to do with sex.
Now that I’m a believer, I even find the concept of consensual sex with someone who is not my wife to be repugnant, even more so if it’s with someone who has had numerous (especially recent) partners. It would be like having sex with a public toilet.
What I do know is there is no evil...none whatsoever...that man won’t do without God. If you can imagine it, someone somewhere will no doubt do it, and there’s nothing new under the sun.
Love your tag line.
The article mentioned the influence of movies and music, but we need to get more specific. The investigators need to examine what kind of porn they watched. A warrant for their internet usage can give the police a good idea of what they immersed themselve in. Hollywood moves have their own problems, but I can't blame them for gang rape.
This kind of situation is why I can never support gun control. Women are at a permanent physical disadvantage in a disarmed society, and therefore are forced to depend upon the civility of society. We don't live in that kind of society, and never will. Guns cancel out men's size advantage.
“I asked my husband and his response was that “some men are just animals”.”
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Your husband told you half of the truth.