A friend was telling me about another friend's experience as a prison psych working with sex offenders. Many will say anything to get out and offend again. My friend was marvelling at such an encounter with evil. It's hard to change someone who has found the secret of the universe.
That secret is power. Feminists often sometimes say rape is all about power and not about sex. I can understand that reduction in a rape and murder, or domestic violence. I think there is some performance aspect. In the case of a rape I think it is more a ritual closing of the breach between power and desire. It is expressing the truest thing the rapist knows, their understanding of how things are. Those with more power run over those with less. The desires of those with more power are satisfied, the desires of those with less go begging. The opportunity to be him who has power is beyond price - if you have no alternate resource for understanding the world. This might be the same for people in the bdsm community - by playing out the awful truth of the world, they can be reunited with the world.
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