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::Thx [[User:William|William]] ([[User talk:William|talk]]) 19:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC) | ::Thx [[User:William|William]] ([[User talk:William|talk]]) 19:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC) | ||
::: Done for now. [[User:Bibipi|Bibipi]] ([[User talk:Bibipi|talk]]) 20:22, 9 March 2020 (UTC) | ::: Done for now. [[User:Bibipi|Bibipi]] ([[User talk:Bibipi|talk]]) 20:22, 9 March 2020 (UTC) | ||
=== "Rape is a patriarchal construct" (originally redacted text) === | |||
It is a common feminist assertion that rape is merely a [[social constructionism|social construct]] about asserting power and dominance over women, echoing Oscar Wilde ("everything is about sex; but sex is about power") and Susan Brownmiller's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/Against_Our_Will Against Our Will], however, there is strong evidence that rape is sexually motivated, either to demonstrate the female to be able to overpower her (which she herself [[Female_subordination_and _submission|often desires]]), or as a low-investment sexual strategy as discussed below. | |||
One counterargument is also the fact that most rape victims are young, fertile women.<ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54866-eng.htm</ref><ref>https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence</ref> If rape was an artificial, social construct for asserting male power over women, in order to 'put them in their place', one would expect that the majority of rape victims would be older, wealthier and higher status women. | |||
There is also a body of evidence that suggests that reducing male frustration reduces incidents of rape, which also refutes the notion rape is not sexually motivated. | |||
Robust evidence also suggests that making prostitution legal or more widely available leads to lower rates of sexual violence towards women in general and prostitutes, with this finding being replicated in various countries such as the Netherlands,<ref>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150299</ref> the United States,<ref>https://www.nber.org/papers/w20281.pdf</ref><ref>https://thinkprogress.org/craigslist-erotic-services-platform-3eab46092717/</ref> and Australia (where the banning of brothels in the state of Queensland may have also been a causative factor in a large increase in male violent crime in general).<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2064544</ref> Thus, it is clear that male sexual deprivation is one of the main causative factors of rape, but evidence suggests that typically only violent, psychopathic men will respond to this deprivation by actually committing acts of rape,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229075046_Life-Course_Persistent_Offenders_and_the_Propensity_to_Commit_Sexual_Assault</ref> although a study in New York found the majority of men who frequent prostitutes reported that they may resort to rape if the indoor brothels they visited were made illegal in the future.<ref>http://www.micaelasviatschi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sex_crimeNYC.pdf</ref> | |||
There is also some evidence that the reversal of the prohibition of pornography in some societies where it was previously proscribed led to lower rates of rape,<ref>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.htm</ref> likely due to pornography acting as a release valve for sexual frustration. | |||