Monday, May 10, 2010

Why are men driven to sexual assault

Sexual behaviour could be socialized in males because much of our behaviour is learned in social settings based on peers, parents, media. Peers influence sexual behaviour because it is important for an individual to feel accepted by his peers so his sexual behaviour will probably be influence by the behaviours of his peers. Depending on the values of the parents the behaviour of the kids will be quite different from one family to the next; in families were there is mutual respect boys will treat their girlfriends with respect. The media seems to say that it is OK to be a skank and to use your body to control men. Then the men expect the women to do that and if they don't they make them.



Sexual assault is a crime of control, power and the type of nature of the man involved in the assault.This would be a hypermasculine man because by definition someone who is hypermasculine craves sexual control, is aggressive and cares only for his own needs.

In Wednesday's Colonist there was an article about a Chinese teenager rescued from working in a bawdy house. Zhao Xiao Jin has been charged with keeping a bawdy house living off prostitution and procuring someone to become a prostitute. In this case his motivation was profit from sex. He would have had complete control over his employees.

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