Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Groth says that most rapists have wives or girlfriends and are not sexually deprived. They rape for power. "They are insecure, inadequate people who don't feel in control of their own lives or themselves." One rapist told Groth...
Another rapist told his therapy group in Florida that he started out as a Peeping Tom before graduating to rape. "I started feeling bad about myself and guilty about what I was doing," he said. "The only way to make me feel better was to make them feel worse...
...Rape is now regarded as a crime of violence, not passion. Sex is not the chief thing that motivates rapists, says A. Nicholas Groth, director of an innovative sex-offender program at the state prison in Somers, Conn. "Rape is the sexual expression of aggression...
...Some men rape as a way of expressing anger, and often these rapes include beatings. Fred, a slab of a man with a bushy beard and bizarrely tattooed arms, went to a convenience store one night for a pack of cigarettes, and the female clerk told him she had just closed up. Furious, he savagely attacked her. "The rape was just a reaction that took place so fast I didn't know it was happening," he said...
Most psychologists agree that rape is not a form of mental illness but a behavior problem rooted in emotional immaturity. Most discount the theory that rapists are latent homosexuals. Rapists usually recoil from the idea. As one put it, "Raping a woman, at least that's normal." (Rape crisis centers report a rise in the number of calls they are getting from men who have been raped by other men. The victims are both gay and straight men, as are the rapists.) Ironically, most rapists are sexually naive and embrace conservative sexual attitudes...