But by saying that it's a biological factor, you're saying that rape is something within human nature, unavoidable and engraved within our psyche. If it was something of such then why isn't everybody raping each other?
Rape isn't a biological factor, rape isn't the hierarchy of human needs, sex is. Rape in culture is evident, putting Islam as the example:
I think there is something like a natural biological propensity for any given behavior actually, whether it's eating, theft, rape, violence, etc., and these vary from individual to individual based on genetics.
Societies either reinforce those propensities or attempt to suppress them. But at base, the behaviors are "natural", and biologically driven, and would occur among some portion of a population under ANY societal conditions. Societal conditions will tend to either reduce the rate of expression of these behaviors or increase the rate of expression, but will probably never be able to fully eliminate their expression or be able to cause 100% expression (without genetic engineering).
All that society can do is tweak the dial.
I think that in most (if not all) Western societies the overall impact of society is to suppress the expression of rape behavior. So I think that in society as a whole, rape occurs at a lower rate than the natural biological tendency toward that behavior, and the same can be said of theft, murder and most other types of violent and criminal type behavior. Of course within given sub-populations they may not be true, where such sub-populations exist.
In terms of our modern definition of rape, being sex against the will of the individual. This happens in nature all the time, and in fact, happens within the harems of chimps and gorillas, with alpha males mating, often agreeably, but not uncommonly against the will of females in their harems as well.
Think about prisons, male or female and rape within them.
Understanding that these behaviors have their roots in nature is a major reason why I don't believe in harsh punishments for any action.
If they went to war with another tribe and won, they would claim the women as booty. If A was not a Muslim then it makes it okay for B to rape her. This IS victim blaming, and this IS rape culture because it is built within a sociological group and belief.
Muslims didn't pull this out of their asses. Forgetting the fact that this was common practice for many cultures, we observe this in animal species as well. War itself is something natural.
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