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Essay / The Pros and Cons of Rape - 1141
Rapists are the product of “flawed urban cultures that espouse perverse ideals of masculinity” (Bourke, 2007). This idea that men must be stronger than women has been observed in many cultures. Sexual violence is seen as one of the ways in which working-class men demonstrate their masculinity. In a study of 175 nineteen-year-olds on the "Hypermasculinity Inventory and a New Sexually Aggressive Behavior Inventory," it was found that "the majority of men used force or exploitation to get sex from dates. » (Anderson and Mosher, 2004). Nowadays, women have entered the workforce. The idea that women were only there to have and care for children no longer existed. Men had to change this idea that they were the sole providers at home. This is why men needed to feel superior to women. In the book "Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators" by McGrain and Ramsland, it is stated that "stranger rape...can be classified into one of three motives: anger, desire for power, and sadism » (2010, p 48). to show that they are more dominant. The desire for power is known as power rape. In this type of rape, “sexuality becomes a means of compensating for underlying feelings of incapacity and serves to express questions of mastery, strength, controlling authority, identity, and capacity.” (Groth, 1988, p. 25) The rape of power brings the ideas of machismo to