Hierarchy causes rape. Because of course, rape is not about sex, it is about power. When you have a culture that teaches everyone, but especially men, that their value comes from being ‘above’ others, well then you’ll find that they start doing disturbing things to prove that they are above others. Women are in general more psychically vulnerable than men and is there a more brutal and dramatic way to exert physical dominance than rape? Yes of course there are complexities here, and yes of course I have data! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232454315_The_Socio-Cultural_Context_of_Rape_A_Cross-Cultural_Study
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