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You don't cite a source for your claim that serial rapists are rare, and the available data tends to contradict it: https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/1
by tjradcliffe 11y ago
You don't cite a source for your claim that serial rapists are rare, and the available data tends to contradict it: https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/predator-redux/ https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/predator-re...
From that link, which discusses psychologist David Lisak's studies of rapists: "The last time I discussed Lisak’s work, I focused on the proportion of the population are the serial predators: a limited group within the population who are recidivist rapists, and who account for the overwhelming majority of rapes, and for a large portion of the child abuse and molestation and the intimate partner violence."
Do you have studies to cite that back up the opposite claim? It's perfectly possible the reality is unclear, but everything I've read about the issue supports the idea that the majority of rapes are commited by significantly than 10% of the male population.
This suggests a view in which rape is seen as a "predator/citizen" problem rather than a "men/women" problem, given that male rapists are about as rare as false rape reports (FBI data suggests that 8% of all rape reports are false, and Lisak and other's work suggests that about 8% of men are rapists, with as few as 4% accounting for 75-80% of rapes).
As well as having the potential to open up new ways of addressing rape (and maybe identifying serial rapists early) this change in perspective would allow a more equal focus on male victims, whose numbers are not well-known (male under-reporting rates are almost completely unstudied and plausibly higher than women's).