How can a man know if he is rapist? Are all men rapists?

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The women gave their reasons for not reporting, they did not consider rape as important enough to punish for and even basically pointless to even report rape. Why would they need to make excuses when they  are being quoted.
Its obvious that many women dont consider rape as a big deal, some even gain pleasure from it. I think they just cant say it openly in the survey.

"It might be assumed that victim experiences of sexual violence are characterised by fear and pain, and while this is true for many, the phenomenology of sexual violence is more complex than this. Increasingly, sexuality research is recognising that people can desire and have a positive regard toward sexual encounters that they do not consent or agree to, however there is limited scholarship examining victim experiences of pleasure or arousal during sexual violence. This article presents a thematic analysis of 50 posts describing the experience of arousal and/or pleasure during sexual violence drawn from Reddit, the popular online discussion board."

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When your whole evidence depends on assumption that those people are telling the truth about their mind, then me pointing out that they can lie destroys your entire evidence. So can people lie? Make up your mind. If people cant lie, then everything I say is true. If people can lie, then your whole evidence is based on assumption and blind hope that they told the truth.
We can look at these studies, surveys, interviews with victims, support groups, books written by victims, podcasts hosted by victims, documentaries made by victims, subreddits for victims, interviews with therapists who treat victims, etc. And we can see a consistency in how people express their experiences with rape, unwanted arousal during an assault, and their overall perspective on what happened to them. Yes, people can lie. But it's unlikely to see people lying this consistently in both open and anonymous settings. 

Evidence that women don't enjoy rape comes from many  many different sources through-out time. The idea is when multiple different sources that exist independent of each-other all display the same conclusions, then it would be irrational to dismiss those conclusions based on the idea that everyone could be lying about the same thing. If we saw a difference between how women reported their experiences with rape when anonymous than when they are identified, you would have an argument, but we don't see a difference in-regard to your claims.

The argument is simple. If you think everything what people say in surveys is true, then it is true that many women are guilty of own rape, many feel that rapist shouldnt be punished, and many have rape fantasies and gain pleasure when being raped. Do you concede to all these?
I believe women are telling truth in-regard to all of the above, including that they found their rape distressing and bad. 

Let's break this down:

Guilt: It's common for people who have experienced any kind of trauma (including non-sexual) to experience guilt. There's survivor guilt, where the victims can feel guilty because for surviving or because they felt they didn't do enough to help other victims. Much of the time, there was nothing the survivors could do to help or to change the outcome in anyway, and the guilt persists despite this knowledge. This is also a common symptom of PTSD.

As the studies show, when women feel guilt regarding their rape, they blame themselves for things like: deciding to go out to the bar with their friends that night,  trusting their co-worker to drive them home, being too nice to someone who was making them feel uncomfortable, etc. No where is it reported that the guilt comes from the feeling that they actually enjoyed the experience. 

Punishment: As mentioned before, many victims don't wish to pursue prosecution for many reasons: fear they won't be believed, don't want the responsibility of breaking up a person's family, don't wish to relive the experience in court, fear that they will face some sort of retaliation, don't feel they remember enough about the person who raped them to be able to properly identify them, etc. 

Fantasies: There's no correlation between people experiencing rape fantasies, and also expressing a desire to be raped in real life. Many may wish to experience a role-play scenario, as they are very common in BDSM circle. But in BDSM circles there is a very strict regard to consent, safety, and boundaries being established before the role-play begins (which would make the experience explicitly not rape). A core component to any fantasy, is the person who is doing the fantasizing is always in control, it's impossible to have a fantasy and not be in control of the fantasy. 

Unwanted arousal: Both men and women experience unwanted arousal during rape/assault. Experiencing arousal is not the same as experiencing desire, and it is not always an enjoyable experience. It's a fact that bodies may always respond to certain stimuli, but that response is merely physical.

When her favorite thing to imagine sexually is being raped, one must doubt that she wouldnt want to realize her favorite thing.
In a role-playing scenario (typically where consent, boundaries, and safety are laid out ahead of time), sure. That does not mean she wants it to actually happen in real life. One thing to understand, even when just talking about sex generally in regard to women, is that while most women enjoy sex, they are not ready to have it all of the time. For example, a woman can enjoy having sex with her husband, but her husband randomly forces her into sex, that would still be a traumatizing experience regardless of the fact that she had enjoyed sex with him in the past. Like I mentioned above, one thing all fantasies will always have in common is that the fantasizer is always in control, you take the control away, and it's not the same experience. 

They all depend on surveys. You cant read people's minds, thus they are just assumptions.
Your argument falls apart because it relies on you picking and choosing what you believe from these surveys. You believe women when they say they've been raped, when they save they've experienced rape-fantasies, and when they say they've experienced arousal during an assault, but then you stop believing them when they say that they did not find the rape enjoyable. You only believe what suits your narrative.

Arousal and orgasms are both pleasurable.
They are not always pleasurable (sometimes they can even be painful): 

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But it's unlikely to see people lying this consistently in both open and anonymous settings.
I dont see how can you know that it is even unlikely. Sounds like another assumption. People lie consistently all the time. Average person tells over 1000 lies a year. You can see in religious communities that lies are very common and consistent when there is social pressure. Also, women who want to be raped wont admit that they want to be raped, because that would ruin the roleplay. Those women want to feel raped. If they admit they wanted it, then the roleplay is spoiled.
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I believe women are telling truth in-regard to all of the above
So you say that women are guilty of their own rape? Well, that is your opinion.

 There's no correlation between people experiencing rape fantasies, and also expressing a desire to be raped in real life.
Thats not a negation of my argument, since I never claimed that those who dont express their desire dont have desire.
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In a role-playing scenario (typically where consent, boundaries, and safety are laid out ahead of time), sure. That does not mean she wants it to actually happen in real life. One thing to understand, even when just talking about sex generally in regard to women, is that while most women enjoy sex, they are not ready to have it all of the time. For example, a woman can enjoy having sex with her husband, but her husband randomly forces her into sex, that would still be a traumatizing experience regardless of the fact that she had enjoyed sex with him in the past. Like I mentioned above, one thing all fantasies will always have in common is that the fantasizer is always in control, you take the control away, and it's not the same experience.
These are all unproved assumptions. You cant read minds.

They are not always pleasurable (sometimes they can even be painful): 
Person can feel both pleasure and pain at same time. Its not really a negation of my claim.
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Punishment: As mentioned before, many victims don't wish to pursue prosecution for many reasons: fear they won't be believed, don't want the responsibility of breaking up a person's family, don't wish to relive the experience in court, fear that they will face some sort of retaliation, don't feel they remember enough about the person who raped them to be able to properly identify them, etc.
You cant read minds, silly.

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This link talks of women who fall in love with their rapists. Some women date their rapists. Some write them love songs after being raped. I guess so much for consistency.

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This discussion is useless mostly because terms have not been well defined.
What is rape?
What us sex?
What is consent?
The definitions vary, and until we can agree on them, the matter is useless to discuss because the definitions vary as widely aaa there are X numbers of us. 
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I dont see how can you know that it is even unlikely. Sounds like another assumption. People lie consistently all the time. Average person tells over 1000 lies a year. You can see in religious communities that lies are very common and consistent when there is social pressure. Also, women who want to be raped wont admit that they want to be raped, because that would ruin the roleplay. Those women want to feel raped. If they admit they wanted it, then the roleplay is spoiled.
It's not an assumption. When multiple sources independent from each other say the same thing, it is irrational to assume everyone is lying. People are less likely to lie when they are in anonymous settings, that's a fact. And yet, we see no difference between what people say in-regard to their negative experience of rape when they are anonymous vs. when they are not. 

I'll say it again: Your argument falls apart because it relies on you picking and choosing what you believe from what people say. You believe women when they say they've been raped, when they save they've experienced rape-fantasies, and when they say they've experienced arousal during an assault, but then you stop believing them when they say that they did not find the rape enjoyable. You only believe what suits your narrative.

So you say that women are guilty of their own rape? Well, that is your opinion.
Aw, you're purposefully ignore where I have repeatedly said: Feeling guilty is not the same as being guilty. I believe these women experience guilt, that is not the same as actually being guilty. I also believe that it is common for 9/11 survivors to feel guilt, I don't believe they are actually guilty of anything. 

Thats not a negation of my argument, since I never claimed that those who dont express their desire dont have desire.
Do you believe that people who survived 9/11 secretly wanted 9/11 to happen? By your logic, they could simply be lying because many people have fantasies about being in action movies where things blow up.

Person can feel both pleasure and pain at same time. Its not really a negation of my claim.
If you read the study, you would see that participants did not claim pleasure in these scenarios (and these were many different types of people in many different types of scenarios). 

Let me try your style of argument for a second.

Question:

How can you prove that the women who say they have rape fantasies aren't lying? 
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This discussion is useless mostly because terms have not been well defined.
What is rape?
What us sex?
What is consent?
I mean, the definitions are hard to come up with here, as all definitions of consent in dictionary are circular. Definition of rape, being directly linked to consent, is likewise hard to come up with. As consent depends on the mind completely, there is really no telling what happens in woman's mind. Some women say they want sex but then regret it after the act and report a man for rape. Some women, on the other hand, seem to somehow fall in love with rapists. To put it simply, my argument is that there is really no way of knowing what a woman thinks. I think even woman herself doesnt know what she thinks, as she changes mind often.

In the link I provided, there is a story about a woman who got raped, and after man raped her, she asked him to stay over night.
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It's not an assumption. When multiple sources independent from each other say the same thing, it is irrational to assume everyone is lying. People are less likely to lie when they are in anonymous settings, that's a fact. And yet, we see no difference between what people say in-regard to their negative experience of rape when they are anonymous vs. when they are not. 

I'll say it again: Your argument falls apart because it relies on you picking and choosing what you believe from what people say. You believe women when they say they've been raped, when they save they've experienced rape-fantasies, and when they say they've experienced arousal during an assault, but then you stop believing them when they say that they did not find the rape enjoyable. You only believe what suits your narrative.
This was already negated. You just copy pasted a refuted argument.

Aw, you're purposefully ignore where I have repeatedly said: Feeling guilty is not the same as being guilty. I believe these women experience guilt, that is not the same as actually being guilty. I also believe that it is common for 9/11 survivors to feel guilt, I don't believe they are actually guilty of anything. 
If woman says she is guilty for being raped, why dont you believe her?

Do you believe that people who survived 9/11 secretly wanted 9/11 to happen? By your logic, they could simply be lying because many people have fantasies about being in action movies where things blow up.
My argument isnt that I know what people think. That is YOUR argument. You are the only one here who claims that you can read minds.
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If you read the study, you would see that participants did not claim pleasure in these scenarios (and these were many different types of people in many different types of scenarios).
Orgasm is pleasure and excitement by definition.

Let me try your style of argument for a second.
Sure.

Question:

How can you prove that the women who say they have rape fantasies aren't lying?
You are the one who claims that everything written in surveys is true. I guess when woman writes love songs to her rapist, one cannot really make sense of what she wants.
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This link talks of women who fall in love with their rapists. Some women date their rapists. Some write them love songs after being raped. I guess so much for consistency.

The study The article states that these women were in denial about their experiences, and didn't immediately acknowledge what happened to them as rape because they didn't want to deal with the gravity that. The trauma of the experience obviously caught up to them if, as the article states, they would later seek counseling for what happened. You don't seek counseling for sex you enjoyed. 

This article doesn't contradict consistency, because (as your source states) these women would later go on to say that they didn't enjoy what happened to them and they were in denial as a self-protective mechanism. 

But, by your logic, how do we know these women weren't lying about having relationships with their rapists?
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The study The article states that these women were in denial about their experiences, and didn't immediately acknowledge what happened to them as rape because they didn't want to deal with the gravity that. 
Not everything article states is true. But it does say that some women who were raped felt pleasure and even fell in love with their rapist and sent him love letters and asked him to stay with them after he raped them. This contradicts your claim of consistency where you claim that women always talk badly of being raped.

The trauma of the experience obviously caught up to them if, as the article states, they would later seek counseling for what happened. You don't seek counseling for sex you enjoyed. 
Not all women seek counseling for rape. And actually, enjoying rape is sometimes the very reason for seeking counseling. Now, we cant know if those women had any traumas. It is very possible they enjoyed rape but then the rapist abandoned them and they felt bad about not being able to experience being raped again.

This article doesn't contradict consistency, because (as your source states) these women would later go on to say that they didn't enjoy what happened to them and they were in denial as a self-protective mechanism.
So women change their opinion and change what they say about their rape. That is inconsistency by definition. But just to be clear, not all women later say they were in denial. Some dont even think it is important that they were raped.
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This was already negated. You just copy pasted a refuted argument.
Ignoring is not negating. I'll keep repeating the argument until you actually address it. 

If woman says she is guilty for being raped, why dont you believe her?
I do believe that she feels guilty, that's not the same as being guilty. I have felt guilty about things that I had no control over. It's a feeling, not a reality. Do you believe 9/11 survivors are guilty for causing 9/11?

My argument isnt that I know what people think. That is YOUR argument. You are the only one here who claims that you can read minds.
My argument is that I believe that people say unless I have reason not to. Your argument is just paranoid, and false apart when applied to any other scenario (which you know, and that's why you're avoiding the point).

Orgasm is pleasure and excitement by definition.
Nope. Orgasms can range in intensity, weak orgasms do not result in the feelings of "pleasure or excitement." Anyone can experience these types of orgasms at any time, and for some people, they are the only type of orgasm they can experience (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24640-anorgasmia). But at the studies I pointed out show, not everyone experiences pleasure every-time they orgasm. 

You are the one who claims that everything written in surveys is true. I guess when woman writes love songs to her rapist, one cannot really make sense of what she wants.
I don't see any reason to believe that most people who are participating in these surveys and interviews are lying, you're right. I believe the women who had relationships with their rapists, and I believe them when they say they had a negative experience and were in denial.

But, let's try this again: How do you know that the woman who wrote the love songs to her rapist wasn't lying?
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But, by your logic, how do we know these women weren't lying about having relationships with their rapists?
You are the only one who claims surveys are true. So if surveys are true, then it is true that many women dont find rape as a big deal, some enjoy when they get raped, some want for the rapist to stay with them forever, some openly beg for rapist to stay with them, some women write love letters and love songs to rapist after he raped them. What exactly am I supposed to think here?
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Ignoring is not negating. I'll keep repeating the argument until you actually address it.
Your loss.

I do believe that she feels guilty, that's not the same as being guilty.
So you dont believe everything survey says. You just cherry pick. You think woman lies when she says she is guilty.

My argument is that I believe that people say unless I have reason not to. 
So cherry picking, essentially. Just because you dont have a reason not to believe someone doesnt mean he is telling the truth. Also, having a reason not to believe isnt good either unless reason is strong, and your reasons arent.

Orgasms can range in intensity, weak orgasms do not result in the feelings of "pleasure or excitement."
Orgasm is pleasure and excitement by definition.

I don't see any reason to believe that most people who are participating in these surveys and interviews are lying, you're right.
You also have no reason to believe they are telling the truth.

I believe the women who had relationships with their rapists, and I believe them when they say they had a negative experience and were in denial.
So you concede that they changed their minds. Hence, inconsistency. But not all women later say they had bad experience.

But, let's try this again: How do you know that the woman who wrote the love songs to her rapist wasn't lying?
Again, you repeat negated logic. Your position is that surveys are true. So you already concede it is true. I dont.
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The women gave their reasons for not reporting, they did not consider rape as important enough to punish for and even basically pointless to even report rape. Why would they need to make excuses when they  are being quoted.
Its obvious that many women dont consider rape as a big deal, some even gain pleasure from it. I think they just cant say it openly in the survey.

"It might be assumed that victim experiences of sexual violence are characterised by fear and pain, and while this is true for many, the phenomenology of sexual violence is more complex than this. Increasingly, sexuality research is recognising that people can desire and have a positive regard toward sexual encounters that they do not consent or agree to, however there is limited scholarship examining victim experiences of pleasure or arousal during sexual violence. This article presents a thematic analysis of 50 posts describing the experience of arousal and/or pleasure during sexual violence drawn from Reddit, the popular online discussion board."

Rape is sexual violence against a persons rights. If the victim does not complain, then it is not considered rape. It is not based on the physical or psychological pleasure derived from the act.
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If the victim does not complain, then it is not considered rape.
What if the victim complains, but actually wants it? Person can complain even if person wants it. Also, what about women who complain after sex?

"In a multi-site study of 8 US communities involved in the “Making a Difference” (MAD) Project conducted by EVAWI, data were collected by law enforcement agencies for all sexual assault reports received in an 18-24 month period. Of the 2,059 cases that were included in the study, 140 (7%) were classified as false."
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Not everything article states is true. But it does say that some women who were raped felt pleasure and even fell in love with their rapist and sent him love letters and asked him to stay with them after he raped them. This contradicts your claim of consistency where you claim that women always talk badly of being raped.
To be clear, when I spoke of "consistency",  I spoke of overall or general trend (I was careful with my language in this regard). I'm not speaking for every single instance that has ever existed (I'm not god). I'm sure you could find a few of women who would argue that "rape doesn't exist" or that "rape isn't bad." But they are the exception, not the rule. The overwhelming research, literature, and media we have on the topic all point to the same conclusion which is that the overwhelming majority of women who have experienced rape, did not enjoy it. 

And the article you provided does not contradict that, as it states that these women still perceived what happened to them as negative, and that they didn't "change their mind" but they were suppressing negative feelings they were experiencing at the time as self-defense mechanism. The problem with the sources you've offered so far is that you cherry-pick and take certain points out of context.

So you dont believe everything survey says. You just cherry pick. You think woman lies when she says she is guilty.
Were the 9/11 survivors at fault for 9/11 because they stated they felt guilty?

So cherry picking, essentially. Just because you dont have a reason not to believe someone doesnt mean he is telling the truth. Also, having a reason not to believe isnt good either unless reason is strong, and your reasons arent.
So far, I've believed everyone mentioned through-out this argument. I've been consistent. 

Orgasm is pleasure and excitement by definition.
Let's see what the science says: 

"An orgasm is “the sudden, involuntary release of sexual tension”1 which may or may not include pelvic floor muscle contractions, intense pleasure, a sensation of “doneness,” heightened emotional experience, increased genital sensitivity, or other marked changes, usually after high sexual arousal.1"
"Orgasm is a subjective experience in both men and women, and it has been difficult to determine an objective marker."

You also have no reason to believe they are telling the truth.
Is your conclusion that we should never believe anyone, and only trust our own first-person experiences?
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To be clear, when I spoke of "consistency",  I spoke of overall or general trend
So you talked of majority and ignored minority? The claim that consistent words are true words is false. Consistency isnt even close to being a determination of truth. Truth by itself is only obtained by observation and not by any "random explanation" of how things work. Majority of people in the past had consistent explanations for why Earth is flat. Well, many even do today.
Majority doesnt determine the truth, and majority isnt incapable of lying, as proved by the fact that average person lies over 1000 times a year. So if almost every person tells lies, then by tautology, majority of them must tell lies as well. It is contradicting to say that almost everyone lies while claiming that majority doesnt lie. Your argument is just appeal to popularity fallacy. So if you think majority is always right, in that case, rape was normal for majority for most of history, in form of forced marriages.
Consistency isnt proof of truth either, otherwise God would be proved true due to consistency. But in your position, there is no consistency as many women fall in love with rapists and others change their mind about own rape, many say they are guilty for own rape by provoking a rapist.
Also, if your position is that only majority surveys are true, then if most women werent raped, then the women who did get raped are not majority and thus arent rule but exception. So are all rape victims lying?

that they didn't "change their mind"
They wrote love letters to their rapists and asked to stay with them. If they claim how that was denial, then they changed their mind.

they were suppressing negative feelings they were experiencing at the time as self-defense mechanism.
By sending love letters to their rapists?
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Were the 9/11 survivors at fault for 9/11 because they stated they felt guilty?
If they say they are guilty, do you believe them? Because if you can cherry pick which survey claims to believe and which not, then I can too.

So far, I've believed everyone mentioned through-out this argument. I've been consistent. 
Okay, so you believe that when a woman says that rapist should stay with her, that it is true. Fine. However, since some women change their mind, it is still not possible for you to be consistent because you would have to believe two opposite statements both being true. She says she wants for rapist to fuck her again, then later she claims she was wrong. Good luck making consistency out of that.

Let's see what the science says: 
Lets see what definitions say.

Is your conclusion that we should never believe anyone, and only trust our own first-person experiences?
No, that is not my conclusion. But yes, trusting anything people say is considered a form of stupidity.
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So you talked of majority and ignored minority?
Yes. I'm speaking to the general trends of the population, not outliers. 

They wrote love letters to their rapists and asked to stay with them. If they claim how that was denial, then they changed their mind.
They've changed their behavior, not necessarily their mind. Some women acknowledge they were raped, but decide to stay with their abuser out of fear. Other women are in denial, and don't acknowledge they were raped until later on because they don't want to believe the person they trusted is capable of do such a thing or that they now may have to perceive themselves as victims. This doesn't mean that the experience wasn't negative for them at the time, but they suppressed those negative emotions in-order to get on in life. The problem with suppressing emotions that they often will eventually pop up in different ways, and that's typically when these women seek counseling for what happened to them. The psychological study of this sort of thing is vast and well-documented.

By sending love letters to their rapists?
Yes, denial is a self-defense mechanism. Women stay in relationships with their abusers, women who have been beaten by their boyfriends/husbands. This does not mean that women enjoy getting emotionally and physically abused.: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/love-lies-and-conflict/202001/8-reasons-women-stay-in-abusive-relationships

If they say they are guilty, do you believe them? Because if you can cherry pick which survey claims to believe and which not, then I can too.
I asked you first. Why are you afraid to answer?

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Yes. I'm speaking to the general trends of the population, not outliers.
So a logical fallacy and not any kind of universal truth.

They've changed their behavior, not necessarily their mind.
Mind controls behavior. You cannot change behavior without changing mind.

Some women acknowledge they were raped, but decide to stay with their abuser out of fear. Other women are in denial, and don't acknowledge they were raped until later on because they don't want to believe the person they trusted is capable of do such a thing or that they now may have to perceive themselves as victims. This doesn't mean that the experience wasn't negative for them at the time, but they suppressed those negative emotions in-order to get on in life. The problem with suppressing emotions that they often will eventually pop up in different ways, and that's typically when these women seek counseling for what happened to them. The psychological study of this sort of thing is vast and well-documented.
These are assumptions. Also, you just conceded that some women think they consented to rape.

Yes, denial is a self-defense mechanism.
Denial is a change of opinion, as denial itself is an opinion.

Women stay in relationships with their abusers, women who have been beaten by their boyfriends/husbands. This does not mean that women enjoy getting emotionally and physically abuse
Some women said they enjoyed being beaten and even provoked their husbands just so he would beat them. I am not saying its okay to beat women. I am just saying, you cant know what everyone thinks.

I asked you first. Why are you afraid to answer?
I answered.
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Some rape victims are obsessed with their rape. They search for places on internet to talk about their rape. They want to talk about it all the time. You often see comments on internet from persons who got raped. There seems to be some obsession in them about talking about rape. Maybe it creates some hidden pleasure.

Even you here made plenty of posts about rape in a very short time, which just shows that merely talking about rape maybe creates some excitement in people. All people are different, and we cant really say that all women who were raped think in same way.

Some obviously dont even care much about being raped, and some get attracted to their rapist and want to get fucked by him again. There is just no telling what a woman really wants. It seems that women who were raped care the least about reporting rape.

There is also the fact that historically, women were often raped and forced to be with person they didnt want to be with, usually in form of forced marriages. It is very possible that women had to adapt and change due to those historical circumstances, and the new traits which resulted were probably passed on further even after women gained more freedom. It is possible that they got used to being dominated throughout history and even learned to enjoy it, so now when they get raped, they get those same feelings.

In animal world, rape is also very common. Even among animals, when one animal rapes another, it is common for the raped animal to start liking the other animal even after resisting at the start.

Some women masturbate while thinking of their own sexual abuse from the past. Now, I dont trust much in surveys, but there is a bunch of them on Quora and Reddit talking about people who get pleasure when thinking about their own sexual abuse. I am just saying, people are different, and different people react differently to experience. Some people like what others dont. Some people are hurt more by something, some not hurt at all.
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So a logical fallacy and not any kind of universal truth.
The opposite of a "universal truth" is not automatically a logical fallacy. General trends speak more to overall society than outliers do. If you want to understand the experiences of women in-regard to rape, you would pay attention to the overwhelming majority. It would make sense to dismiss the claims of the majority under the possibility of lying, because we have examples of different things people do commonly lie about in society. Surveys and other research do pick up on when people lie, it comes up in the patterns found in these surveys. When patterns are inconsistent, that's when you see people lying.  

Mind controls behavior. You cannot change behavior without changing mind.
But in this instance, the behavior isn't indicative of whether or not they enjoyed the rape.

These are assumptions. Also, you just conceded that some women think they consented to rape.
Now you're lying. I never suggested that women consented to rape, just that some women were aware that they were raped. Being aware that a rape occurred is not the same as consenting to a rape. 

Denial is a change of opinion, as denial itself is an opinion.
Denial isn't an opinion, it's simply suppressing the knowledge that something occurred. 

Some women said they enjoyed being beaten and even provoked their husbands just so he would beat them.
I would be interested in seeing where you got this from.

Some rape victims are obsessed with their rape. They search for places on internet to talk about their rape. They want to talk about it all the time. You often see comments on internet from persons who got raped. There seems to be some obsession in them about talking about rape. Maybe it creates some hidden pleasure.
This is true of anyone who experienced any kind of trauma or illness. They wish to speak with people who understand their experiences to help them process it. What it creates is catharsis, the same time of catharsis that people who speak about their experiences with grief after they've lost a loved one get. Are people who seek-out support groups, and subreddits for grief secretly happy their loved one died? I would argue most aren't. 

Even you here made plenty of posts about rape in a very short time, which just shows that merely talking about rape maybe creates some excitement in people. All people are different, and we cant really say that all women who were raped think in same way.
I just like to debate.

There is also the fact that historically, women were often raped and forced to be with person they didnt want to be with, usually in form of forced marriages. It is very possible that women had to adapt and change due to those historical circumstances, and the new traits which resulted were probably passed on further even after women gained more freedom. It is possible that they got used to being dominated throughout history and even learned to enjoy it, so now when they get raped, they get those same feelings.
Except that you've provided no evidence of women who have suggested that actively they enjoyed being raped. You've taken certain information out of context, where you believe half of what is being said, but not the other half. 

Some women masturbate while thinking of their own sexual abuse from the past. Now, I dont trust much in surveys, but there is a bunch of them on Quora and Reddit talking about people who get pleasure when thinking about their own sexual abuse. I am just saying, people are different, and different people react differently to experience. Some people like what others dont. Some people are hurt more by something, some not hurt at all.
How do you know that those women aren't lying? What do these women say about that? Do they say that they enjoyed it, and that they wish it would happen again? Or do they say it's like a compulsion or form of self-harm, and that it feels different from when they are masterbating to someone they are actually attracted to and has not hurt them (it's the later). Stop taking things out of context.

The problem with your premise is that you're willing to believe certain things that people say, but not other things based on whether or not it fits a pre-existing narrative you have in your head.

Here are the holes in your argument:

You claim that consent can never be given because a woman might secretly not want to do something she says she wants to do. You ignore that the definition of consent is to simply to give permission, and that personal desire to have sex is irrelevant to that act.

You equate the feeling of guilt, with actually being guilty of something. Many people can experience guilt when they logically know they've done nothing wrong (myself included). If a woman says she feels guilty following a rape, but unless a woman is being told "Hey, if you walk into this room, you're going to get raped, turn away if you don't want that" and then she decides to walk into that room anyway, she's not guilty of anything. The type of guilt women feel in these instances are typically that they decided to go out with their friends or that they trusted a co-worker to drive them home (and yes, if I believe women who say they feel guilt, then I have no reason not to believe the reasons they state for that guilt).

You suggest I should consider nit-picked information that you present (some women experience arousal during rape, some women have rape fantasies, some women experience guilt, etc.), but then say that I shouldn't also consider the reasons or the further context that is offered around that information. It's illogical. 
 
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If the victim does not complain, then it is not considered rape.
What if the victim complains, but actually wants it? Person can complain even if person wants it. Also, what about women who complain after sex?

"In a multi-site study of 8 US communities involved in the “Making a Difference” (MAD) Project conducted by EVAWI, data were collected by law enforcement agencies for all sexual assault reports received in an 18-24 month period. Of the 2,059 cases that were included in the study, 140 (7%) were classified as false."
If the victim complains and files sexual assault charges. The accused will have to prove it was consensual sex.
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I am glad we had this little chat.

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If the victim complains and files sexual assault charges. The accused will have to prove it was consensual sex.
At least 1 in 20 of women who report being raped lie about being raped. The number is probably even bigger, but these are just cases where it was clearly proved that woman lied about being raped just to put man in prison.
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If the victim complains and files sexual assault charges. The accused will have to prove it was consensual sex.
At least 1 in 20 of women who report being raped lie about being raped. The number is probably even bigger, but these are just cases where it was clearly proved that woman lied about being raped just to put man in prison.
The stats are based on the number of cases won by men who prove it was consensual sex.