• Women have less money, position, prestige – in other words power – than men. (The only thing women have more of is work.) All relations between the sexes are shaped by this. None of it is 'natural'.
• Power corrupts. Many men, whether high or low in the social hierarchy, use sexual coercion and other abusive acts for pleasure and to reinforce their power.
• Men take for granted that they will be physically serviced and emotionally cared for by women. Rape is an extension of this expectation of women's availability.
• Women, because they are often financially dependent on or otherwise subordinate to men, often cannot escape men's violence. Both sexes learn this early.
• The "justice" system (here police, CPS, and courts) backs up and reinforces this grotesque imbalance. Men convicted of crimes against women feel unlucky, not guilty.
• In this climate, men must go against the social grain if they refuse to 'take advantage'. To call this social advantage 'natural' is a great lie.

To reduce rape to a physical act in any way comparable to what insects do is not serious. Of course there is a physical and sexual dimension to rape. But women who sexually desire men, whether or not the man is willing, rarely act on these desires. Women and men do, however, assault children including sexually. Again the key is power: whose desires are allowed, and whose needs are neglected. Women (vs men) and children (vs adults) count for less.