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Rape exist because a lot of men are sexless. The solution is to change our cultural definition of sex to make it about love and connection. There's artistic sex as well as spiritual sex. When you're connecting with a piece of art (music, film, literature...) on a deep level that's sex, it's love, connection and passion. When you're meditating or contemplating God, and having breakthroughs and existential insights, that's sex on a deeper level too. Go have sex with life, art and God. That's the best sex possible. Sex with other people is fine too. Even just on a physical level masturbation, pornography are forms of sex. Whatever is based on love, connection and can lead to orgasm is sex, be it physical, artistic, mystical...

@Natasha Tori Maru My pleasure

@Natasha Tori Maru Yes i agree.

@Natasha Tori Maru I feel like a lot of rape is fuled by artificial cultural expectations and demands about losing one's virginity or having a high body count, or that having sex means you're successful and cool, etc... If we eliminate this immature notion of sex, to incorporate it in a broader notion of love and connection, which could be artistic and spirtual, not just purely physical, a lot of rape would automatically stop, because people would stop feeling the shame around not getting this toxic version of sex society has invented.

@Natasha Tori Maru I am arguing for a change in worldview. Similar to how homosexuality wasn't a thing for most of history, and still most of the world today. The idea that your sexual attraction defines your identity is relatively recent. In many worldviews, like for example in a christian worldview, homosexuality is not a person but an act, and specifically a sin. It's like all humans are tempted towards sin, some towards some sins more than other sins, and others towards other forms of sins. But homosexuality wasn't understood to be a person's identity. Similarly sex IS a social construct today. The idea that you need another person to have sex or orgasm is a construct and is false. Which is why i listed other forms of love and connections like artistic or spiritual ones. If we erase the notion of sex altogether and replace it with love and connection we would be better as a society.

@Natasha Tori Maru I definitely agree. I think it also has to do with dark tetrad personality types which are prone to commiting such acts.

@Olaf You should go and try it 😋. Do it for science.

@Olaf Hehehehehe that just proves my point. Most rapists and murderers don't think of themselves as such. Which is why understanding the logic, mechanics and reasons behind such acts is crucial to not become one yourself.

@Olaf You didn't explain the perspective of rapists, which just prove my point. I feel those who declare the most to not be rapists are the most prone to committing rape paradoxically. Why do you get so outraged if that wasn't the case? If you weren't the most prone to rape, you would feel chill and detached and able to discuss it without much friction.

@Natasha Tori Maru I feel like you're choosing to be blind. Rape is a serious issue. And your childish moralizing won't change the seriousness of it.

@Olaf Then oh wise guru, explain why rapists exist, and their perspective. Go ahead i am waiting.

@Natasha Tori Maru You girls have no idea how many men commit suicide because they aren't getting sex.

@Natasha Tori Maru I am trying to lay out the mechanics of how this works, that's all. I am interested in pure understanding, not moralizing.

@Natasha Tori Maru Well rape which is sexual violence is a form of violence. Sometimes violence is understandable if you're in a difficult situation. It's like if you're starving should you steal? Well, it's easy to say stealing is bad, if you aren't in a situation where you're starving.

@Natasha Tori Maru Well it's like if you aren't getting laid for years and decades, rape might start to become an appealing option, obviously. The dating market is kind of brutal. You have many models: The traditional model: telling you you should just have sex with your wife for the rest of your life. The redpill model: telling you you should have a Bugatti in order to get laid. The pick up model: you need thousands of hours of practice to pull girls consistently. At some point some men are lost and it's understandable.

@something_else exerting power isn't as fundamental as sex drive.

Every country is a person. With its own personality (culture), consciousness/life (the members of the country who embody the country's psyche), organs (cities), tongue (language), taste (cuisine), soul (art), and past (history). Traveling to a new country, is like meeting a new person. Developing a relationship with a country, is developing a relationship with a new person. And letting the country connect with you on a deeper level and changing you, is having sex with this person. That's how i feel in regards to italy at least.

@r0ckyreed Religion is a framework in which happens infinite interpretations of reality.

@Leo Gura Bias against mainstream religion. I feel like you misunderstand religious people's perspective.

Judas tempted by forces beyond him, Satan himself, betrayed Jesus for fun. The drunkenness of malice. Yet all he did was say the truth. The truth crucified Jesus. The truth crucified God. Yet at the sobering with reality, Judas ends up in a psychotic break from it, funny how so much truth leads someone to lose his sense of sanity. He started hallucinating and ultimately died from his sin, which was to betray Christ. Judas betrayed Jesus because there was a void inside himself that God himself couldn't fill. If Christ died for our sins. And Judas is the one that made the authorities crucify Jesus. Then Judas is the true hero of the story. Isn't it ?

The capitalist narrative of the system rewarding hardwork and sacrifice, is a manifestation of a deeper religious narrative about God rewarding moral behavior. Capitalism works because most people are believers and therefore since they are persistent with hardwork God rewards them with money. And it works. That's the most beautiful thing about all that.

@Thought Art Careful not to strawman what i said. God didn't tell us to be fools either.

@Thought Art In a believer's mind it's God.

@integration journey I don't really read, i prefer to sit and contemplate. I also get information through youtube videos, movies, sometimes reading. It's a mixed bag. You can read the bible and still be clueless about it. However if you contemplate what you already know just from mainstream culture, you'll get way more clarity, insights, knowledge and truth from it.

Yeah i'm quite familiar, Leo operates from his own paradigm, not the christian paradigm though.