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Is there a correlation between exposure (by women) and rape?

The Pakistan PM Imran Khan blamed how women dress for rise in rape cases and said 'not everyone has the willpower to avoid it'

Not that he is an authority (He was a flamboyant playboy himself while younger),

but still is there some truth in his words? 

Is there a correlation between dressing and rape?

Rather, Is there a correlation between exposure and rape?

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  • Zirp
    Lv 5
    5 days ago
    Favorite Answer

    Not like that

    Very few rapes happen in nudist colonies.

    the vast majority of rapes is not on the street by some stranger who "cannot control himself". They mainly happen at home, by someone the victim knows, trusts or is dependent upon

  • Anonymous
    10 hours ago

    Rape is a criminal activity.  If we could get into the minds of rapists, then maybe we could solve that problem.  

    One thing we do know, is that rape is NOT about power.  That faulty notion was constructed by feminists, and successfully pushed as truth for over a generation until the idea stuck.  Have a look here:

    The Myth that Rape is About Power

    https://difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com/2014/09/0...

    “The original source of the idea that sexual assault is about violence and power instead of sex or lust doesn’t come from a scientist or an academic study.2 It comes from a feminist writer named Susan Brownmiller who invented the theory pretty much from scratch for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.”

    “…an actual scientist stepped in with a direct rebuttal just four years later, in 1979. The book was called The Evolution of Human Sexuality and it was written by the anthropologist Donald Symons. It is no coincidence that Symons wrote from a scientific rather than a political perspective, and his book was widely heralded by some of the greatest social scientists of the 20th century,” 

  • Amber
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    Very little, in Miami Beach where going topless on the beach is no big deal. or Sunny Beach in Bulgaria, where every summer day there are several hundred topless young women running around the beach. Guys don't even give them a second look. Explain Saudi Arabia where women are covered from head to foot but rapes still occasionally happen.

  • 5 days ago

    I don't believe so, was there much rape at Music Festivals in the 1970's, where both men and women went round naked, high on little pills and powders.  It's most likely that rapists are mentally unstable and get turned on by forcing someone to have sex with them.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    @RoVale: 90% of the rape victims of straight women are boys and men. Over 90% of the rape victims of gay men are boys and men. Over 90% of the rape victims of lesbians are girls and women. The only group anyone even pretends rapes commonly outside their attraction circle is straight men. That conclusion however has fallen apart since gay men and bisexual men started coming out of the closet more.  If rape is not about attraction it's awfully curious that rapists commonly rape within their attraction circle.  

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    Anyways, I'm not sold on dress having much to do with rape. It might be a motivation in some rapes, but it's clearly not motivation in all. 

  • RoVale
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    No there's not. Women get raped all the time regardless of how they act, how they are dressed, or whether they are drunk. Besides, rape is not about sexual attraction but about asserting power and control over a smaller and weaker victim. That's why children, old people, disabled people, and even men get raped.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    "Is there a correlation between exposure (by women) and rape?"

    Rape is primarily a crime of opportunity.  So usually is it a potential rape victims behaviour that signals opportunity for a stalker rapist.  This often means that dress does play a role by correlation, for example, in situations where a women is in party mode and then acts irresponsibly by getting drunk and making bad decisions.  This is probably why the confusion around a victim's dress is always debated.  A woman that is not in party mode and does not go out and get drunk will probably not be wearing that party attire.  But even  if she did, then her responsible actions and behaviours would prevent any opportunity for a rapist to take advantage of.

    This reality is not meant to shame any victim either btw.  It is no different than any other crimes of opportunity.  And what's really strange about all of this, is how feminists themselves flip-flop on this same "victim blaming" idea when the perpetrators are non White men, as occurred with the taharrush (mass rape) of White women in Cologne Germany (and other European cities) during New Year's celebrations in 2015/16.  The police were barred from speaking about race/culture issues, and the feminist mayor Henriette Reker told the women that they should keep an arms length away from men. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/world/europe/co...

    Why Don't Feminists Fight for Muslim Women?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJkFQohIKNI

    .

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