Quote:
Originally posted by speeder
Well, you have it exactly backwards, historically speaking. We would seriously have to start another thread, but do you think that the (close to 100%) teen pregnancy rate in certain countries is related to their prudishness?? 
Or that the (close to zero%) rate in Japan is because they walk around nude and are more open about their sexuality? I enjoy your posts in general, but I sometimes have to wonder if you are thinking about what you are writing as you type it. As for the PC slogan that rape has nothing to do w/ sex, give me a freaking break. How can you possibly explain all of the millions of times that someone has beaten the schit out of a woman (or man) and forgotten to rape them? Nothing in life is that simple. (Or maybe that complicated).
|
Huh? Not sure what your last remark was meant to convey, but I have been told many times that public rapists are generally not simply guys who cannot get a date so they grab ladies and enjoy some luvin' in the bushes. I am told these men have aggression issues, and dominance issues and hatred of somebody (sometimes hatred for women) and a pile of other confusions and sicknesses, and the act of rape is essentially a dominance/violence thing, where intercourse is just a part of the violence. A "spiking the ball" behavior, if you will. They say rapists often have problems getting an erection, even with the violence, and that the violence is what they find arousing. I'm not making this up. I've worked with a number of people who work with rape victims and perps, and this is what they have said to me.
Your point about other cultures is well taken. Clearly, prudish attitudes towards the human body is not completely determinative of things like teen pregnancy. Other factors also impact that. Education. Poverty/Affluence. I'd guess those are more powerful variables than prudishness. And I still think our twisted, taboo, snickering attitude toward nudity is dysfunctional, and does impact teens' behaviors. My college roommate's dad used to pretend to lock his books in a glass gun cabinet-type bookshelf. They were for adults, he said. But the lock was never actually latched. The kids were insatiably curious about these "books." Brett's dad was brilliant.