What about the rape within marriage?
Until 1992 husbands in the UK were enjoying 'legal rape', since law did not prohibit man to rape his wife.
as horrible as it is, there is a great number of woman and men who fantasize about rape.. Maybe you should have posted this thread at this forum rather than a history forum and see their reactions:
www.rapeboard.com
Personally I find rape one of the most horrible crimes. When you rape someone, you might even steal her or his soul, for afterwards she or he will constantly feel self being ''dirty''.
Rape has two dimensions: as a form of sex and as a form of daominating the other person. The latter is usally forgetten even tough in most of the rape cases it outnumbers. Most of the men who rape other men are not homsexuals but straight as much as you are , but driven by a desire to dominate and probably punish other man.
One important point to bear in mind ratehr than stranger rape, the overwhelming rape type is date rape, which implies that the agressor is familiar to victim. Even tough it is hard to recognize a potential rapist, I would sugegst women to stay away or at least put an end their friendship with people, who usually call women by dirty names like b...ch, lacks of showing empathy even in tragic situations of daily life, has a background of sexual abuse as a child, blame women for the problems of the world..these are the features of a potential rapist.