许多男性会实施强奸；朋友实施强奸时，许多男性会发出鼓励性的窃笑，或冷漠地耸耸肩。许多男性会实施强奸，而很少有人似乎认为这是件多大的事。也许比起其他任何事，性暴力最突出的特点就是它的重复性。男性实施性暴力往往遵循某些模式：受害者大多是身边亲近且处于弱势的女性，在某种社会等级体系中刚好低于他们——他们的助理、约会对象、朋友、女儿、学生，或孩子的保姆。
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal Maybe more than anything else, sexual violence is repetitive. Men commit it in patterns: mostly against women who are close by and vulnerable, just below them on some social hierarchy: their assistant, their date, their friend, their daughter, their student, their kid’s babysitter.
男性实施强奸是为了机会——因为他们可以——也是为了地位——因为这让他们感觉良好。他们通过强奸来打动其他男性，并用手机记录下来，让彼此欣赏。他们实施强奸后，似乎并不总会觉得强奸得来的性行为与没有强奸的性行为有多大区别。他们常常在似乎不假思索的情况下实施强奸；即便想到受害者并不情愿，也只是以模糊的轻蔑态度予以无视。莫拉·多尼根是《卫报》美国版专栏作家。
Men rape for opportunity – because they can – and for status – because it makes them feel good. They rape to impress other men, documenting it on phones for one another’s benefit. Men rape and do not always seem to much of a difference between the sex they’ve had that was rape and the sex that they’ve had that wasn’t. They rape, often, without seeming to think about it,ing their victims’ unwillingness with vague contempt, if at all. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist