Essayage

Over the next month I have to write essays. The next one to be attempted is " Why do men rape?"
Rape is defined in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as ;

Rape
	(1) A person (A) commits an offence if-
	(a) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person (B) with his penis,
	(b) B does not consent to the penetration, and
	(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
	(2) Whether a belief is reasonable is to be determined having regard to all the circumstances, including any steps A has taken to ascertain whether B consents.
	(3) Sections 75 and 76 apply to an offence under this section.
	(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.

There is a famous quote from a feminist writter Susan Brownmiller from her book Against her Will.

Man’s structural capacity to rape and woman’s corresponding structural vulnerability are as basic to the physiology of both our sexes as the primal act of sex itself. Had it not been for this accident of biology, an accomodation requiring the locking together of two separate parts, penis into vagina, there would be neither copulation nor rape as we know it. Anatomically one might want to improve on the design of nature, but such speculation appears to my mind as unrealistic. The human sex act accomplishes its historic purpose of generation of the species and it also affords some intimacy and pleasure. I have no basic quarrel with the procedure. But, nevertheless, we cannot work around the fact that in terms of human anatomy the possibliity of forcible intercourse incontrovertibly exists. This single factor may have been sufficient to have caused the creation of a male ideology of rape. When men discovered they could rape, they proceeded to do it.

When men discovered they could rape, they proceeded to do it??? wow, now thats a very challenging and powerful statement.

While we were discussing this quote at school, in a group situation, the men were understandably furious at this quote initially. We talked for over an hour about this one quote, and at the end of it, when all the indignant feelings were quietened we concluded that yes, as a quote we all agreed with it. Because you cant not. Its almost factual. But the discussion about it was great!

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