Samhita Mukhopadyah's Essay Why Men Rape

The understanding of what rape actually is has been an issue than the American people cannot seem to comprehend. There are some men and women who believe when a person says “no,” they really mean, “try harder.” However, in Funk’s essay “Why Men Rape,” he explains, according to Nicholas Goth, the three main reasons that motivate men to rape, which are the desire for power, control, and domination. In addition, he goes further into detail about the three types of rapists. The Power Rapist, which accounts for approximately ninety-five percent of all rapists, “rape to gain a sense of power out of the attack (Funk, 4).” The second, The Anger Rapist, accounts for approximately 4 percent of all rapists, and they rape “as a way of releasing angry feelings they have (Funk, 4),” which can result in injury to the victim/survivor. Last, The Sadistic Rapist is the rarest who often “’get off’ on the fact that they are hurting the person the are raping (Funk, 4).” An example would be Jeffery Dahmer. The problem with Groth’s theory is that his paradigm gives the impression that rape is not a choice that a man makes; …show more content…
Black women did not have a voice two hundred years ago because they were not seen as people; however, even with rights, black women today are still kept silent. Mukhopadyay makes the point that a black man raping a white woman is more believable, even though history proves that some lied in order to explain their relations with a black man during slavery. On the contrary, when a black woman claims she was raped by a white man, the story is not “developed in the same way, because of the power differential and the belief that white men are entitled to all women’s bodies, irrelevant of race or class (Mukhopadyay,