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Why do women really orgasm during rape?
I have read a number of articles written by PhD's, first-hand accounts of women who've been raped, and comments on various forums like this one at Yahoo! Answers. They all seem to state that women who achieve orgasm during rape do so because a) the bodies reaction to fear is so intense that it escalates their orgasm response or b) the rapist is able to, either because of his being in a secure environment where he has the time or because he simply is able to "last", make the female orgasm because the act lasts long enough to cause the females body to exhibit the natural "physiological response to the stimulation of a females erogenous zones".
I find this to be a bit hard to believe seeing as almost all of the women whose rapist was able to continue the act for an extended period of time was able to make the woman achieve orgasm. This is no different than a woman who can't have an orgasm during sex with their partner; a longer sexual session heightens the possibility of the female achieving orgasm.
If you take only the statistics of women who have had a rape that lasted a lengthy amount of time, those women's rate of orgasm would be very high than if you lumped all rape occurrences together where the rapist lasted only a short time.
I only bring this up because I have never met a woman who hasn't had a rape fantasy (and I understand that their are those who feel there is a difference between fantasy and reality, i.e. the female is in control of her fantasy, but she has no control during rape although I personally feel, and have many female friends who admit that if the rapist was a very attractive man that they would not only submit to his domination but would most likely orgasm because of his assertiveness and their feeling of being desired to the point of rape). Women want and desire a somewhat sophisticated (although that is a luxury) caveman who will simply drag them off by their hair and have their way with them, especially if this caveman resembles the men they fantasize about and read about in their romance novels or that they see onscreen or onstage.
So, do women really only orgasm during rape because it is an accidental response to stimulus that they are unable to control or do women inherently have some part of their biology that responds sexually to the extreme sexual advances of a domineering male, who in turn makes them feel, in some strange way, the object of his unquenchable desire.
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Here is a source I found on the fly. I have an M.A. and am working towards a PhD at the moment. I am not simply throwing out wild opinions with no basis in reality here. My mother was raped as was my youngest sister. I empathize with rape victims; I do not, however, look beyond rational thought brought on by certain evidence that proves that women, on some level, inherently desire this type of attention from the male population. For every caveman there is also a cavewoman.
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By the way, if you're looking for recent academic study on this subject you'll have to get off google and yahoo and put those academic databases you're all paying your respective universities so much money to use to good use. You will find plenty of information there you won't be able to find by searching the web, seeing as when you search rape and orgasm together you get a number of niche porn sites in which I am sure no one here has any interest in viewing.
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This is a topic that I have discussed a great deal in the past with counselors, rape victims and even here on Yahoo Answers and in other online forums. I have read a great deal on rape and I had seen the article you cited in the past while researching the topic too. The reason I had invested so much time on it is because I was a victim of a rape about 4 1/2 years ago by a stranger when I was 18 and have struggled to find answers to the question you've posed as well as others. It is usually thought of as not being PC or polite and people start getting very defensive about it. Well, exploring and trying to find out the truth is not helped by closing one's eyes to things we rather not believe.
I think that the answer to the question as to why do some females orgasm during a sexual assault or rape is that all of the various explanations have some validity, but none of them tell the entire story in the case of every individual victim of the crime.
First of all, orgasms in women being raped are not frequent, but they are not uncommon either. In the study you cite, about 5% to 21% of women interviewed in the studies surveyed reported having an orgasm when they were raped. Researchers have hypothesized that the actual figure is probably a bit higher in reality due to victims being understandably embarrassed both by the rape and by having achieved an orgasm during unwanted, forced sexual relations. Around 20% seems to be a likely, real-word figure.
Why would almost 1 in 5 women have an orgasm during the rape? Conditions probably have to be right. What you mentioned about long enough stimulation of the erogenous zones is probably often correct, because most women unless highly aroused prior to penetration don't orgasm quickly during the act and the man is likely to finish before she has had a chance to have an orgasm. So it is likely that in some case the rapist engaged in various kinds of foreplay during the assault. But, at least 20% of women like me have a highly sensitive g-spot and achieve orgasm during intercourse very frequently and fairly easily at times. That might explain why some women might orgasm even during a short violent rape. In fact in one study even several women who were beaten up during the rape still had orgasms just from intercourse. I would think that they also had to be women with an active G-spot.
It also might be that physiological and adrenaline response that you see often referred to in some articles too. But other researchers question whether a woman can really have an orgasm unless at some point she wants the orgasm to take place in some part of her mind at least. They say that women just cannot have an orgasm unless she concentrates on it a bit. If this is true, is it because of our biological heritage from cave man times like you wonder? Perhaps it is for some women at least. Although we now live in civil society (at least in the developed world) humans were hunter/gatherers and cave dwellers for a far longer part of our history than they have been civilized. Our thousands of years long history as cave dwellers and hunters can't be erased in our genes and predispositions after only about 5000 years of civilization. Some women probably do at some unconscious level respond to a man taking control of her physically and having sex with her by dominating her physically even to the point of responding in the extreme case like during a rape. Many women engage in play with their bf's or husbands which are like a play or role played rape in some manner, so it obviously again something that just turns some women on.
Altogether, it is just a fact that some of us will orgasm during a rape. The explanation is complex, but the bottom line is that whether or not a woman orgasms, if she is raped it is an experience that will haunt her unless she receives support, counseling and understanding in order to deal with the complex and deep emotions caused by the experience.
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