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Several lines of research seem to disprove the notion that sexually unsuccessful men are more likely to be driven to rape out of desperation: Lalumière et al. (1996) conducted a study that found that sexually coercive men were more sexually successful, and had a higher self-perceived mate value.<ref name="ref48"></ref> Another study on male college students (N = 795) found that men who confessed to having previously raped or engaged in acts of sexual coercion also typically reported having more sexual partners than control men. While some of these rapists were recidivists, so their acts of rape would have served to also inflate their self-reported partner count, "number of sex partners" was found to be a significant predictor of likelihood of having previously carried out acts of sexual violence.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567167</ref> Ellis, Widmayer & Palmer (2009) found that rapists reported a much greater number of lifetime sex partners (both mean and median) compared to non-rapists, though this may have been influenced by the fact that the authors didn't exclude non-heterosexual males from the sample.<ref name="ref50"></ref> Conversely, adult virgins tend to report lower engagement in risky behavior, a low [[sex drive]] and other slow [[life history]] traits.<ref>Haydon, A. A., Cheng, M. M., Herring, A. H., McRee, A.-L., & Halpern, C. T. (2013). Prevalence and Predictors of Sexual Inexperience in Adulthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(2), 221–230. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0164-3</ref> | Several lines of research seem to disprove the notion that sexually unsuccessful men are more likely to be driven to rape out of desperation: Lalumière et al. (1996) conducted a study that found that sexually coercive men were more sexually successful, and had a higher self-perceived mate value.<ref name="ref48"></ref> Another study on male college students (N = 795) found that men who confessed to having previously raped or engaged in acts of sexual coercion also typically reported having more sexual partners than control men. While some of these rapists were recidivists, so their acts of rape would have served to also inflate their self-reported partner count, "number of sex partners" was found to be a significant predictor of likelihood of having previously carried out acts of sexual violence.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567167</ref> Ellis, Widmayer & Palmer (2009) found that rapists reported a much greater number of lifetime sex partners (both mean and median) compared to non-rapists, though this may have been influenced by the fact that the authors didn't exclude non-heterosexual males from the sample.<ref name="ref50"></ref> Conversely, adult virgins tend to report lower engagement in risky behavior, a low [[sex drive]] and other slow [[life history]] traits.<ref>Haydon, A. A., Cheng, M. M., Herring, A. H., McRee, A.-L., & Halpern, C. T. (2013). Prevalence and Predictors of Sexual Inexperience in Adulthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(2), 221–230. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0164-3</ref> | ||
Groth and Birnbaum (1979) summarized:<ref>Groth AN, Birnbaum HJ. 1979. ''Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender.''</ref> | Groth and Birnbaum (1979) summarized:<ref>Groth AN, Birnbaum HJ. 1979. ''Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender.''</ref> | ||
{{quote|It is | {{quote|It is commonly—and mistakenly—assumed that men who rape do so either because they are sexually aroused or because they are ''sexually frustrated'', or both. In fact, as we have seen, the motives underlying such assaults have more to do with issues of anger and power than with pleasure and desire.}} | ||
Given that the majority of rapes of women (at least in the United States) are reported to be committed by acquaintances of the victims rather than strangers,<ref>https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence</ref> and incels frequently report being shunned even from platonic relations with women, one could speculate that the inordinate fear some feminists have of incels committing acts of sexual violence is not caused by their fear of the act itself, but their primordial terror of being impregnated by what they see as 'inferior' men. | Given that the majority of rapes of women (at least in the United States) are reported to be committed by acquaintances of the victims rather than strangers,<ref>https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence</ref> and incels frequently report being shunned even from platonic relations with women, one could speculate that the inordinate fear some feminists have of incels committing acts of sexual violence is not caused by their fear of the act itself, but their primordial terror of being impregnated by what they see as 'inferior' men. | ||