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During my preparatory work for the Sex, Love and SoulMates in the New Paradigm Talks which start March 21st 2013, I remembered something that happened in the early 1990s.
While I was in college, at Dublin City University, I was at a lecture being given by a world leader in sociolinguistics.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society
During this lecture, he was talking about how rape had nothing to do with sex, sexuality, or even sexual desire, but all about power. How one person was basically physically bulling another and forcing the other person to submit physically, so that the perpetrator could feel powerful). As this lecturer was a world respected leader in his field, extremely intelligent, and a formal government "expert" who was a key decision taker on laws and guidelines for the country, his view was more than just a personal opinion.
Half way through this lecture, I put up my hand, something unheard of during his lectures. When he saw that my hand was up, he immediately asked me what it was I wanted to ask or say. My response was very short and in the nature of:
"Of course it's about sex, sexual desire, sexual energy, sexual power, and sexual dominance. Otherwise their genitals would not be in the equation. To say it has nothing to do with sex, when it is the sexual organs that are being violated, or used to violate in many cases, is ignoring the elephant in the room, it's a way to make it 'comfortable', as we don't talk about sex in Ireland. I would have to disagree with you, and say that although rape is about power, it is also all about sex."
