Who does it?

It is a myth that rape is committed by psychopaths, or by sexual perverts; in fact it is committed by normal men. Dr Amir in his study of 646 rape cases in Philedelphia in 1958 found that rapists "do not constitute a unique clinical or psychopathological type, nor are they as a group invariably more disturbed than the control groups to which they are compared."

What does this mean? It means that "normal" men are committing atrocities against women.

Another feature that is very common in rapists is that they are likely to be known to their victims. As a survey, conducted by Now in NZ, shows - only 18% of rapists were strangers to their victims. The Now survey also dispels myths about the racia, origin, and class of the typical rapist. 93% of the rapists were European and their occupations crossed every class. The "dirty old man" also seems to be a myth, as the average age was in the twenties.

So now we find that rapists are "normal", European, ordinary men in their twenties. In most cases they are known by their victims. That means brothers, fathers, uncles, family friends, husbands, boyfriends, acquaintances - not strange, old, sex perverts that most people think of as rapists.