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RAPE DURING WAR AND UNREST


[+] serious ballot by larrynelmira
ACTIVE Mon Jan 28, 08 - Tue Jan 27, 09

Why do you think that happens?

Some people might say horny soldiers, but I don't buy that totally, sometimes, it happens within days of deployment, a soldier in many cases had just left the bed of their sexual partner, does war cause some to convert back to animal behavior that quickly?

This is happening in Kenya right now, but it happens and has happened in all societies throughout the ages.

Is it just to violate the women of the enemy?
In the eyes of many, that is worst punishment a combatant could inflict .

When someone is raped in non war environment, most people agree it's nothing to do with sexual pleasure but control and power, I suppose that could apply into war situation too, but I don't know, reports I've read, most men who rape in military hostile zones, never did this in their civilian life, what changes?

Rambling on here, so will stop now, I have to get ready for class, but what's your opinion on all of the above?



I have no clue
They are horny
war brings out the animal instinct
They want to inflict this punishment on their enemy
All changes, what's normally considered bad is okay in war
They were always rapists, waiting for the opportunity.
It depends


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COMMENTS:
Voted : They want to inflict this punishment on their enemy
Nothing is more psychologically scarring, for a man, than looking into the eyes of a rape victim. It's still control and power, larry, but done at distance. Now, any man in that area pauses to consider going off to war, if he has female family members to leave behind.
by Truthseeker013 on Mon Jan 28, 08 5:29am [+]

Voted : They were always rapists, waiting for the opportunity.
This situation makes it oh-so-much easier to get away with it.
by mojo on Mon Jan 28, 08 5:47am [+]

This is a very good question. There are several theories (which I won't go into) that attempt to explain this. Most seem to have some element of truth in them but none completely explains why it occurs in my opinion. War often brings out the worst elements of a persons character (and sometimes the best). Some people while normally good law abiding people seem to get pushed over the edge by the stress of the war. Some simply want to win the war and get it over with. Others, unable to control their anger and other emotions want to destroy everything around them and beat everyone (the enemy) into utter submission. Whatever they can do to humiliate and destroy people, they do.

Its a very complex question. Why does genocide occur? Why do massacres like My Lai (Vietnam) happen? Or even why do people gather around and cheer when people fight? And then cheer louder if someone is knocked out?

Obviously, not everyone participates in atrocities like rape. Why? How are they different from those who do? They might even be in the same unit.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Jan 28, 08 7:13am [+]

Voted : war brings out the animal instinct
How exotic. rolleyes
by _Beelzebubba on Mon Jan 28, 08 9:48am [+]

I seriously think it's about control, men feel powerless so they turn on the one thing they can overpower. This happened in Ethopia..apparently, after a civil war, the men turned on the women
by aya on Mon Jan 28, 08 10:51am [+]

Voted : war brings out the animal instinct
we're not fallen angels; we're mammals
by elvislennon on Mon Jan 28, 08 12:05pm [+]

At this very moment in the Congo females are young as 5 and as old as 74 are being gang raped in front of their village. It effects the entire village because everyone wishes they could do something to stop it but they're helpless. It's a power and control thing / a way of inflicting punishment on their enemy.
by ClosetIguana on Mon Jan 28, 08 12:13pm [+]

Items 3 and 4 are the most common reasons offered by theorists.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Jan 28, 08 12:25pm [+]

I think what MOST, of you said may be the reasons , some are as mojo stated, also for some, a way to inflict punishment and terrorize the enemy.
by larrynelmira on Mon Jan 28, 08 1:30pm [+]

Voted : It depends
It depends. Some wars have only the usual number of criminals in any large number of people, unless bad attitudes bring out the worst, as in Kosovo and the Japanese during World War II.
by skylab on Mon Jan 28, 08 2:55pm [+]

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