And yet, in some places, that's about how low rape levels are - because it's not something that is socially tolerated AT ALL. In fact, it's considered downright unmanly - rather than part of the way that masculinity is envisioned as in our culture.
Undetected rapists are men who typically behave in stereotypically masculine ways, see sex as conquest, and are hypersensitive to any perceived slight against their manhood. But they are not crazy, and they are not sociopaths. “There is simply no evidence, save the rape itself,” Katharine Baker writes in the Harvard Law Review, “suggesting that all or even most rapists are objectively depraved.” Chillingly, she goes on to say that given the social norms that encourage it, there is evidence that rape is “culturally dictated, not culturally deviant.”
~The Macho Paradox by Jackson Katz
