Does Castration Deter Sexual Assault?

It looks like such a conversation took place during the winter of our missed content. Here is a fragment cached at www.boardreader.com

Izzy said, “Actually, no. I think the notion that the primary motivation for a forced sex act is sex is commonsensical - rather like the notion that the primary motivation for armed robbery is money. Further, the performance of the sex act itself would seem to require a certain level of arousal on the part of the rapist. And again, the
age distribution of victims is heavily weighted in favor of sexual attractiveness.(Many “rape = violence” assertions make note of the fact that women of all ages can be raped. Which is true - anything can happen, but there is an enormous decrease at older ages).”

How do you account for rapists who have a steady supply of sex at home and still prefer to terrorize their victims with sex? It’s power and humiliation – not sex. Usually. I’ll give you date rape, but that’s about it.

  1. There are people who have “a steady supply of sex at home” and still have affairs.

  2. There may be people who are attracted specifically to this type of sex. (I noted this in my first post.) There is a lot of room for variations in taste when it comes to these matters.