is rape actually as bad to you as its made out to be?!

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Animals don't rape each other! Animals have an natural instinct to reproduce without emotion so that's what they do. Human beings are much more complex in their desire to reproduce. That's how emotions come into play.

Also, having sex with an unwilling female can cause her physical trauma. Assuming you're a guy, have you ever tried to penetrate a woman who wasn't properly lubricated? You can end up tearing the vaginal tissue and causing all sorts of injuries. How pleasant is THAT? NOT to mention that a lot of rapes also result in anal injuries. Plus it's degrading to women. Why should she be forced to have sex with someone just because? Don't you value your ability to make a choice in sex partners? What if a guy wanted to rape you homosexually? Wouldn't you think that was a huge deal?


"if someone raped me i wouldnt enjoy it but it would certainly not rank anywhere near number 1 in the worst things that have happened to me and i would easily get over it and get on with my life thats why i cant see the big deal with the trauma some people suffer from, what causes it purely induced from societies stance on rape or is there some instinctive trauma to rape?"

If he blew out your azzhole, you may think differently.

due to experience yea

RAPIST:
TYRONE NORWOOD
GARDENA, CA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Because animals aren't humans.

I'm not easily offended, but this is an incredibly ignorant question.

Animals kill eachother too. Try another angle.

I feel sorry for your stupidity.

We aren't animals...

I didn't think it was that bad,,,,I even kept the kid

Just sayin'

all you say its true but it can ruin a young childs life make her feel like she cant be touched again (hug or poke or even in that way) !

You are absolutely correct -- HUMANS ARE ANIMALS. Do not believe anyone who says otherwise. The irrational idea that humans are "superior" to other animals is known as "human exceptionalism" -- this is an arrogant human invention designed to treat other animals like objects (to serve selfish human needs). People "justify" this arrogance with delusional religious beliefs and dogmas.

The reason rape is not acceptable in human society is because of social conditioning, social constructs, and social norms. Humans are a peculiar species, and we have peculiar ways of doing things -- building skyscrapers, creating culture, and setting up lots of rules to prevent things such as rape -- this is done in attempt to make society "civilized". The only reason sex is a "big deal" for humans is because our religiously-driven society believes it to be that way. To most species, sex is not a "big deal" -- just another function of life.

Rape should be illegal, but remember that "legality" itself is a human creation -- so although humans are animals, "legality" is a human concept.

ok well first of all, i know humans ARE animals but its really not the same.
second, rape is usually an act of VIOLENCE towards another person, it is not meant to pleasurable to the rapist or victim. also, it generally isnt just 'sex', they will most likely beat you and force to do things you dont want to do. rape victims suffer huge amounts of trauma and it is a very sad and unfortunate thing. im sure you would not like it if you were raped, so please do not think that rape is 'natural', because it's not.

I blocked out my molestation and rape for two years. I never realized why I was afraid to be intimate with a man. I had nightmares about it recurring over and over again (and still do). I never reported the crime because I felt no one would believe me, since the perpetrator was my first boyfriend.

I see what you're getting at with the animal example, but I also want to say that many of those female animals try to avoid being raped by the males. They don't just accept it as a natural order. They fight back because it's undesirable (possibly because they've been raped before and do not want to endure the trauma again).

And robbing a car? Really? You can have insurance and police help reimburse you/find your car. When someone holds you down and forces you to have sex you lose control over your own choices as well as your own body.

I'm guessing that you also think people who have witnessed things like violent deaths of loved ones shouldn't be traumatized. After all, baby animals in the wild sometimes witness the gruesome deaths of their mothers. And of course if you're viciously attacked by a dog you shouldn't fear dogs. It's just a natural thing for one creature to attack another. Get over it, right?

And what if a man feels like he can have sex with whoever he pleases? What if he picks your 12 year old daughter? She comes home crying and bleeding. You just tell the girl it's a part of life, get over it?

It's a very complicated social issue. And I find it very difficult having grown up in this society and being a rape victim to imagine a world where that kind of violence is simply accepted.

In some ways were animals as we come from apes BUT
some people who have been raped because its a stranger and its scary as your so close to them being forced to do something its similar to kidnapping which is also very frightening as some rape cases end up with the person dying afterwards the criminal panics. You can't really ask this question til you have actually been through it but its worse than a robbing as a robbing can be replaced with new things but you can't replace a person, a rape screws up you mentally and physically not wanting to be touched by anyone and trust has vanished. So that's why my friend.

Yes, rape is as bad as it's made out to be, and you'd know this if you were a woman.

It's different when men have sex. Men are more able to detach themselves from emotions and have sex purely for pleasure. If a man cheats on a woman, it's probably just because she couldn't satisfy him sexually, but he may not actually have intentions of leaving her. If a woman cheats on a man, it's usually because she needs emotional closeness that he can't provide for her.

Sex for women is usually a big deal. If a girl has sex with more than one guy, it means she's a slut. If a guy has sex with more than one girl, he's high-fived and called a player. Guys are encouraged to have sex from society, whereas if women do it, they're suddenly sinful and shamed. I lost my virginity at 17 after dating for 8 months; my boyfriend lost his at 14 after dating a girl for 2 months. You see the difference?

When women have sex, we not only have these social pressures that are on us that tell us we should be pure, but to have sex, we have to let you in our bodies. Guys don't have that; they can hump and walk away. But girls take sex so much more personally. I could never have sex with someone I didn't trust to stay with me.

So when someone is raped, not even just a woman, it's a huge deal. Not only has someone taken the most personal and often most sacred part of our body, but we have no control over it. It's a hugely personal crime that doesn't just leave its victims emotionally scarred, but women are often physically hurt in rape. Consented sex is lubricated and the woman is ready for it, but rape is often very harsh and painful for the woman.

I've never been raped and I certainly don't want to be. If I was, I probably wouldn't act like it had ruined my whole life, because it probably wouldn't. I open up to people very easily, and I push things back easily enough. But many women aren't like that, and it is a huge disrespect to them to tell them to just "get over it." Like childbirth, if you're not a woman, you've never done it, you probably will never do it, or as they case may be, have it done to you. Therefore you can't really respectfully hold the opinion you hold.

And as far as your animal analogy, there's a reason why humans are the dominant species. It's because we have a civilization and a culture and society and a level of reasoning that many animals do not. For most species, sex is an act driven by the need to reproduce. Humans are evolved to a level of thinking about that primary instinct, and society has cultured us to believe sex is sacred.