And I turned out alright in the end.

Sad. And that coming from residents of a country that has seen plenty of violence in its day.

People said the same thing about ear-piercing in 1965. Same.Exact.Arguments.

Seriously! I’m 62 years old and have a tatoo—which I’ve had for a good 35 years or more. Ink is everywhere. These folks sound like my parents who didn’t want me to pierce my ears when I was in eighth grade! Same “arguments.”

I’ll take one more shot. Again, this theory relates to stranger-on-stranger rape and is overly simplified.

Cool. I just don’t think I’m explaining myself very well, so I think I’ll just get some sleep. Cheers!

Admittedly, I had in mind stranger rape. In that context, I was referring to “easy prey” as perhaps women who are walking alone at night, as I was, or women who are compromised by age, a handicap of any kind, alcohol/drug misuse, women who follow a rigid routine too closely (always parking in the same place, always…

You just couldn’t be more wrong.

If a male who rapes women is removed from female interaction, they will eventually not be able to fight their urges and will begin raping men.

Runs the elevator in a building that rents to law firms.

So, what are the motivations of rapists, according to the scientific-based research? You could just link me to a research paper or two if you’d rather.

Rapists may hate women, but at the end of the day they mostly do it because they get off on it.

But don’t you see that you’re making an argument for WHO rapists rape? Not WHY they rape?

What other factors do you contend there might be?

I think the “easy prey” scenario can sometimes come into play when a rapist is choosing a victim—but not when they’re deciding whether to commit the act in the first place. Having worked with rape crisis after being raped by a stranger at gunpoint myself, certain habits or circumstances or what have you that make a…

I’m really glad you qualified your post with “by no means equating the two,” because there is no way one should ever even begin to hint that robbery or credit card scams are anywhere near the equivalent of rape.

. . . makes people more likely to discount anything of worth you might have said . . .

Why do you think men rape women (or gender x versus gender y)?

Sorry—I hadn’t seen any other responses. Didn’t mean to pile on. Apologies.

Not to put too fine a point on it, the children in the “ghostmother” photographs weren’t dead. Ghostmother photos are creepy, yes, but different from memento mori photos.