If it is a power thing how come pedophiles don’t get off on watch people with power humiliating people lesser than them? How does a rapist keep walking with a hardon? At one point the brain has got to tell the body this is really fucked up but I am asking on a scientific level. I got alot of questions. Thank you in advance for taking this serious. I can expound on my original questions if you like.

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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    Um… because a rapist is someone who commits a violent assault, whereas a pedophile is someone with an aberrant sexual attraction. A rapist by definition has committed a violent assault, whereas it’s very common for pedophiles to recognize that they have a serious sickness and refrain from ever attempting to act upon it. I’d wager that is even the majority of cases.

    How ever did you see them as being the same?

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      Well kind of the sex aspect. I was wondering how it chemically worked or biology worked in the body. It just can’t be a serotonin high. The brain still has to rush blood to the penis to get hard. But what causes that difference of such a abhorrent acts? Is it serotonin for both? If so how does it differ between places to send it? Is it a combination of blood flow and serotonin working together? Is so how so? Does our bodies do that for any other things?

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        Yeah and I’m not a professional scientist but there will be far different things going on in addition to the simplest basics of sexual mechanics. Also, rape is not merely a sexual act - the sexual component is in actuality just a means to an end, which is control, power, dominance, anger, defiance, revenge, misogyny, complexes such as inferiority, oedipal - the list goes on. The sexual aspect of rape is its most minimally significant - from the perspective of what’s going on in the perpetrator’s biochemistry etc.