Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Lots of rapes – what’s the fun?

Many psychologists and others that “know” says that the act of rape isn’t about sex, it is about violence and control. Maybe that is true in one way, but most of the time I would claim that there is a fulfilment of sorts; some need, fantasy or desire to be satisfied. No matter what newspaper I check out today it seems that some woman or women have been raped. Sometimes, at least if you check out the news, it seems like men’s favourite past-time is ripping of clothes and forcing themselves on some jogging woman, on a adolescent girl or, as I curiously read today, a demented 82 year old lady.

Most rape victims have no protection since governments have outlawed self-defence and to a certain degree one needs to accept that this world have a lot of crazies running around, but I wonder how so many men (and some women) find it so fulfilling forcing themselves on others? Sure I get the fantasy. Roll-playing “rape” or having a sexual fetish involving pain or submission can be fun or at least I get that some regard it as fun, but somehow I find it very hard to relate to a rapists. I mean, you cannot really put your dick in the victim’s mouth; snap snap and swallow/spit…. And the messiness of the whole ordeal. Tearing of clothes is a hardship in itself, but just imagine putting on a condom while the woman is kicking and trying to get away. Maybe most rapists do not think about protection, but it is hard to know if your attended victim have some disease and in order to leave less evidence a condom is a good choice. Various rapists have solved most of these problems with the usage of a weapon, but that also takes focus from the actual act and having one arm less to work with seems like a negative factor. This is also why I, in most cases, tend to believe in the psychological explanation about violence and control. However the most beneficial way of dealing with all these problems is to either be several rapists (gang-rape) or to use some rope/chain in order to subdue the victim. For me however this seems to take the pleasure out of the whole thing. If the purpose of rape is to have a woman that is hardly moving, what’s the real fun? I mean, wouldn’t that imply it is better to find a nice corps?

Is there a way of solving this rape thingy? Not really. This is not a new phenomenon, sadly enough it has been used throughout the ages and it will continue. Some suggestions about how to minimize the damage exists though. For example in Sweden a condemned rapists, if he is unlucky, have around 2 years of imprisonment. Not really a deterrent, especially since the risk of getting caught is minimal. Longer imprisonment, preferably with some additional punishment like limbs being chopped off, would be a better deterrent. Also this would send out a signal to the victims that they actually matters. Another thing is of course to carry a gun. As mentioned most governments do not like citizens defending themselves, that’s the government’s job. But if every rapist out there knows that there is a big chance the victim carries a 9mm, at least some rapes could be avoided. Also some rapists might get shoot, which no one should cry about. Lastly it is time to stop all religious fanatics and anti-sex people that is only forcing prostitutes underground, making the sex-issue more taboo and suppressing people’s desires. We need more nudity and much more sex in this world. With the exception for the really crazy ones, I believe that better education, a much more sexual environment and a none-judgemental world would keep some “normal” people from committing this crime.

Back to the ”old” threats

Since the Swine flu is losing its dangerousness every time a journalists happen to actually work for 5min it is time to find new scary things to sell papers with. Looking at Swedish news this morning there is no surprised learning how climate change is this century’s biggest threat to health and environment. We also get to learn that cancer will happen to one out of five Swedes and so on. Nothing to alarming though and the only real threat we are facing right now, the appending depression, isn’t mentioned at all even if money problems among political departments are a common ground. This begs the question what they will conjure up next? To me it is strange that the tens of millions on the road to starvation in Africa do not get more attention, but some black people dying aren’t really news. A couple of white folks dying from a very harmless flu is much more interesting that the thousands of none-white dying from tuberculosis during the same time. And it is much more fun to read about how exchanging light-bulbs can save the world than about millions about to die on the Dark Continent. We haven’t really heard that much about nuclear weapons lately, so that is a probable topic. Maybe some journalists will discover how deep in financial dodo we really are and start sounding the alarm about that? But if today’s papers are an indicator I think it is back to that hilariously madness of man-mad global warming. We haven’t seen enough ice-sheets falling lately and there is always some animal going extinct. So a good guess is that the next couple of days/weeks we will see alarm rapports about how plastic bags knocks off seagulls, some soap is killing lakes or that our consumption of snickers is hurtful to bees. And you, the idiots, will buy it as usual.