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== Rape hysteria == | == Rape hysteria == | ||
Feminists commonly assume that even mild forms of rape are some of the worst crimes of all, comparable to murder. While '''it is unquestionable that rape-rape is bad''', and nearly all incels in fact prefer consensual and loving relationships, the trauma caused by rape has likely been overstated by feminists. No doubt, physical or psychological trauma, infection, or even death should be classified as crimes with appropriate severity (i.e. assault and murder, respectively), but these do not represent the majority of outcomes of rape. The most common outcome is that the victim shows neither physical nor psychological harm in the long term.<ref>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0272735818300539</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174</ref><ref>https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf</ref><ref>http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replication-of-the-meta-analytic-examination-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-Rind-Tromovitch-and-Bauserman.pdf</ref> The severity with which rape is socially ostracized is thus likely disproportional to the overall harm caused by rape (especially since rape is relatively rare and today is committed by a tiny subset of men), and thus it is mostly a moral panic. All of this is complicated by the fact that most women have | Feminists commonly assume that even mild forms of rape are some of the worst crimes of all, comparable to murder. While '''it is unquestionable that rape-rape is bad''', and nearly all incels in fact prefer consensual and loving relationships, the trauma caused by rape has likely been overstated by feminists. No doubt, physical or psychological trauma, infection, or even death should be classified as crimes with appropriate severity (i.e. assault and murder, respectively), but these do not represent the majority of outcomes of rape. The most common outcome is that the victim shows neither physical nor psychological harm in the long term.<ref>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0272735818300539</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174</ref><ref>https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf</ref><ref>http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replication-of-the-meta-analytic-examination-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-Rind-Tromovitch-and-Bauserman.pdf</ref> | ||
The severity with which rape is socially ostracized is thus likely disproportional to the overall harm caused by rape (especially since rape is relatively rare and today is committed by a tiny subset of men), and thus it is mostly a moral panic. All of this is complicated by the fact that most women have fantasies about raped. The push to pathologize hebephilia, in particular, has been suggested to be driven by a "punitive era of moral panic", as claimed by forensic psychologist Karen Franklin, "a textbook example of subjective values masquerading as science" (though referring, of course, to the sexual interest, not rape).<ref>https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/public-policy-implications-hebephilia-response-blanchard-et-al-2008</ref> | |||
The moral panic about rape, also called "rape hysteria", is likely an unnecessary burden on the mental development of young men and contributes to their deteriorating romantic lives due to the additional fear of being falsely accused of rape or harassment causing a shyness to approach women. Wendy McElroy suggested that rape hysteria has inflicted harm on women themselves.<ref>https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1162</ref> | The moral panic about rape, also called "rape hysteria", is likely an unnecessary burden on the mental development of young men and contributes to their deteriorating romantic lives due to the additional fear of being falsely accused of rape or harassment causing a shyness to approach women. Wendy McElroy suggested that rape hysteria has inflicted harm on women themselves.<ref>https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1162</ref> | ||