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Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
Studies and statistics offer a rough picture of a "typical" rapist. He is young, most likely between the ages of 15 and 19. He is apt to strike in summer rather than in winter, at night rather than by day, and half the time he rapes the victim in her home. He is usually poor and, like three-quarters of all rapists, he was sexually abused as a child. But experts say the statistics are too sketchy to categorize rapists; the exceptions spill across all social classes. Says Judy Ravitz, executive director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against...
...Assailants have no idea that what they are doing has devastated a life," says Peg Ziegler, director of Atlanta's Rape Crisis Center. "They think, 'It's just sex. She's had sex before. What's the big deal?' " As one rapist put it, "There has to be some point in every rape where the woman relaxes and enjoys...
There are no standard responses to an attack. Many self-defense specialists advise acting aggressively early in the assault, yelling or bending his pinkie finger back. But there is no way of knowing how a given attacker will respond. In Groth's group, one rapist said he "would let them go as soon as they started to cry." Another said he stabbed a woman who became assertive...
Last month Illinois Criminal Judge Christy Berkos gave a lenient sentence to notorious Plumber-Rapist Brad Lieberman, who, on top of prior rape convictions, pleaded guilty to five rape charges. In an interview, the judge explained his sentence: "Lieberman had done things that did hurt the women, but fortunately he did not hurt the women physically by breaking their heads or other things we see. He didn't cut their breasts off, for instance...