It's a very difficult subject. It would seem as though rape has the key things men want: Power and sex. It disgusts me... How can a man contemplate rape? You have to completely forget that the other person has feelings. I imagine it must be very difficult for a man, as well (not nearly as painful as to a woman, though). Think about it: His self is so warped that he treats a human being like a mere toy; Something to give him pleasure, and not worthy of thought or consideration. Perhaps part of the problem in solving the issue of rape is convincing the man himself that he realizes that there are better ways to find pleasure. Though this might not always be realistic... A very difficult subject, indeed.

Hell, I want power and sex, but I don't go around raping people. ;P

Maybe we just need to put the world's men on anti-depressants... I mean, I think the Zoloft makes it so I don't want to have sex. Or I don't want to have sex because of a decrease in Klonopin. Or maybe it's internal. Ahh, who the he[ck] knows anymore?!

Fuck yeah. Kill society.

Oh, and I really would like to slap across the face all these stupid kids who are now using this word casually and making jokes about it. Is nothing sacred or offensive anymore?

Call me a radical, but I think rapists deserve the death penalty because rape is one of the most disgusting things I could possibly fathom. Anyone who does it would be well suited either to spend the remainder of their lives in a very, very dirty jail, or to be killed so no one has to look at them ever again.

...Anyway.

Well I'll call you a radical ©ö|îñ. I don't think rapists deserve the death penalty, but I don't believe anyone deserves the death penalty.
Of course rape is horrendous and deplorable, but getting on a moral high ground doesn't really do anything to help prevent rape, and of course the death penalty doesn't prevent crimes or criminal, after all what criminal thinks he will be caught? But as I was saying, think of what one would go through to become so twisted as to rape someone. It's easy to hop on the bandwagon and say, "Oh, these rapists are terrible people who don't deserve to live." So that my words are not taken out of context, let me emphasize that while rape is of course a terrible, traumatizing act that I would not wish on anyone, don't you think that it's possible for people to reform, and possibly even work to help prevent this sort of thing from occuring again in some instances?
On a lighter note here is a fun site.
http://www.jesusfun.com/hhhterms.htm

Ummm, I think if you've raped somebody you don't get the chance to reform. Bye-bye, get out of the gene pool, stop existing, you no longer deserve to be around.

Just my two cents. But y'know, to give you an idea of how hotheaded I am on this topic, I think Colin saying he's a radical for believing that is absolutely ridiculous. I take that for granted! :)

Allan, I see your point. But I'm also particularly sensitive on this issue, and I believe that some people DO deserve the death penalty.

What gives any of us the right to decide that someone should die? I think that rape is horrible, and I think that rapists deserve hugely strict punishment. However, I also think it's pretentious for someone to dictate who gets to live and who gets to die.

You're good at picking out controversial topics, Almeda. :)

Good thing I don't dictate it, then. I just wish I did.

I agree that the decision shouldn't be on any one person's shoulders; I'm just stating that were it proper for that to be, that's where I stand.

She is, isn't she? :P

I don't think rape is so much controversial as the death penalty is, and I didn't say anything about the death penalty. :P

However, I will admit I'm with Abbey Sue and Brinzy on this: the death penalty doesn't prevent the crime, people don't have the right to take other people's lives, and most of all, it's cruel, unusual, and unconstitutional.

I was having a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago. Is there more than one kind of rape? We have different levels of murder, after all. Should we treat a case where a wife suddenly says no in the middle of intercourse but her husband ignores it in the same way as a man who drags a woman off the street and rapes her? Whilst I completely agree that both are violations of a woman's sexual space, and therefore rape, I have a hard time convincing myself that both deserve the same punishment. Then again, I know people who think differently. Very difficult topic.