Rapers could rape for many different reasons. Below are some of the most common drives behind rape:
- Feeling Rejected : One of the reasons a man could rape a woman is to make up for the rejection he felt earlier by the opposite sex. By overpowering someone from the opposite sex the man can feel relieved of the shame of rejection. The subconscious mind believes that people who share certain similarities are the same person then everything will become clear. You might fall in love with a woman just because she looks like a woman you loved before and the same goes for rape. A man can rape a woman just because she resembles a woman who rejected him earlier.
- Feeling superior to women: All men want to feel superior to women but some of them fall prey to low self confidence issues which forces them to believe that they are inferior to women. In such a case the shame becomes unbearable and those men start to find another way to feel superior. Sane men will usually find a healthy path to gain superiority, such as succeeding in life while other men who are too scared to do this might start taking a short cut,which is raping women, to feel superior.
- Expressing his power: The media teaches people indirectly that men are superior to women because of their ability to dominate them sexually. Because of these advertised beliefs some men start to seek that kind of domination in order to feel more manly. In other words some men rape women in order to assert their manhood especially if they had doubts about their own masculinity.
- Sexual Enjoyment : Sexual Enjoyment may a good cause for man who rapes a woman. When a Man doesn't find a suitable means to ejaculate & get relieve, he find a alternative & instance gets converted to Rape.In that case sometimes Man doesn't know about the consequences & other laws prevailing in the society.
- Taking Revenge: Some men rape women in order to take revenge from that specific woman, from a woman who resembles her or from women in general. Lets suppose that a man had a very tough boss who happened to be a woman. In such a case that man will feel ashamed because his manhood is threatened by a woman and as a result he might feel like wanting to rape a woman who resembles her in order to feel good . Some people wonder why do some men rape old women who are above 60 or even 70 but when they know that the raper picks a target who resembles someone he already knows then the mystery will disappear.
- Compensation for lack of intimacy: some men don't have a good social life and aren't any lucky when it comes to dating. Those men are put under pressure by their peers and as a result they start to experience shame. Some of those men start to become rapers in order to compensate for the lack of intimacy in their social lives
- Empowering Cowardliness: People who lack control over their own lives try to exert control over the less powerful ones they know. If a man felt he is not in control of his life and he wasn't brave enough to regain that control in a socially acceptable way then he might become a raper just to overpower a helpless victim and so feel in control.
