Accounts from both offenders and victims of what occurs during a rape
suggest that issues of power, anger, and sexuality are important in
understanding the rapist's behavior. All three issues seem to operate in
every rape, but the proportion varies and one issue seems to dominate in
each instance. The authors ranked accounts from 133 offenders and 92
victims for the dominant issue and found that the offenses could be
categorized as power rape (sexuality used primarily to express power) or
anger rape (use of sexuality to express anger). There were no rapes in
which sex was the dominant issue; sexuality was always in the service of
other, nonsexual needs.Abstract Teaser