Rapists are the product of “defective urban cultures that espouse perverse ideals of masculinity” (Bourke, 2007). This idea that men must be stronger than women has been seen in many cultures. Sexual violence is seen as one of the ways in which working-class men demonstrate masculinity. In a study of 175 nineteen-year-olds on the “Hypermasculinity Inventory and a Newly Constructed Aggressive Sexual Behavior Inventory” it was found that “most men used force or exploitation to obtain sex from dates.” (Anderson & Mosher, 2004) Nowadays there has been an entry of women into the job market. The idea that women were only here to have children and take care of them no longer existed. Men had to change the thought that they were the only providers of the home. For this reason, men needed to feel superior to women. In the book “Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators” by McGrain and Ramsland it is said that “stranger rape… can be classified according to one of three motives: anger, desire for power and sadism” (2010, p 48 ). to show that they are more dominant. The desire for power is known as power rape. In this type of rape, “sexuality becomes a means of compensating for underlying feelings of inadequacy and serves to express issues of mastery, strength, controlling authority, identity, and ability.” (Groth, 1988, p 25) Power rape brings with it the ideas of machismo
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