Bells
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You are applying a bizarre standard.. Almost movie type standard.This seems to be a common analysis. Tell me what you think, if you like...
In the case of an erection, stress and anxiety can interrupt how your brain sends messages to the penis to allow extra blood flow. Stress and anxiety about ED can also contribute to a cycle of ongoing ED. Experiencing ED can lead to behavioral changes that contribute to anxiety and incidences of ED.
https://www.healthline.com/health/erectile-dysfunction-anxiety-stress
I don’t know about the other men here, but I would think that some psycho woman slobbering frantically over my penis, holding a gun to my head, threatening to squeeze the trigger if I don’t get hard enough, for her to rape me, would kind of cause a bit of stress and anxiety.
Please explain the biology, and, or the psychology that would bypass that.
Physical manipulation and stimulation, Jan. Involuntary reaction.
Sometimes he could be asleep, drunk, stoned, etc. Most of the time, there is no gun. Most of the time, there is coercion, threats, some force, etc. And in cases of male on male rape, there is often physical force and threats.
You have come up with this bizarre scenario that actually beggars belief.
You are the one obsessed with the gun to his head.That is rape yes.
But that’s not one woman holding a gun to your head.
Of course multiple people can hold you down, or a woman could spike his drink, or a few women could hold down a guy. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to get hard while she gets her kicks.
Which is what we were specifically talking about.
And again, it can take only one person. Rape is sex without consent.
I was actually questioning your frankly pornographic obsession with how a woman could arouse a man to rape him. The demand for details, even after the question was answered.. Repeatedly... Is bordering on pornography. For example:Meaning what?
I might be a rapist?
I hope you’re not going there.
This has been answered multiple times already.So we’re back to this.
So she holds a gun to his head, to the point where the dude is incapable of defending himself. What does she then do in order to get this stressed man to get an erection?
I did.You can always answer the question.
Stop demanding we cater to whatever rape fantasy you dream up to explain to you how the male victim could get aroused.
And stop asking ridiculous questions in comparison.
Consent in the context of this discussion means no rape.Consent doesn’t necessarily make it right.
My point is that in some cultures, adultery is classed as a heinous crime, and in other cultures it’s actually encouraged. Consent does not make it right.
If you wish to discuss consent in regards to euthanasia, that is a subject for an entirely different thread.
Probably the standard English version.It’s not a transliteration of the original text.
So where did it come from?
The KJV literally means the same thing.
How much further are you going to try to go parsing this to try to deny it means rape?
And I'm not even broaching on the subject of the woman's choice or say in the matter, because that's another horrendous thing for her voice and choice to be taken from her.
I mean, the earlier passages describe the same wording as a crime worthy of death, but when it comes to the virgin who is not betrothed, it's not rape?
And there's the answer to that question...It doesn’t say he raped her...
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Ive taken the liberty to look at what his meant by the bold statement, as that seems to be the only reference you could use to claim rape...
That phrase is translated from the Hebrew word taphas, which is described as...
- to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield
- (Qal)
- to lay hold of, seize, arrest, catch
- to grasp (in order to) wield, wield, use skilfully
- (Niphal) to be seized, be arrested, be caught, be taken, captured
- (Piel) to catch, grasp (with the hands)
Now please explain how that verse means the woman has been raped, as opposed to consenting.
A man "lays hold" on a woman and lies with her, by your own definition of what "lay hold of", is use of force and would classify as rape. Seize, arrest, catch, grasp, wield, be caught, be taken, captured..
The passage is well recognised as discussing rape, Jan.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5615/neareastarch.78.4.0294?seq=1
"Rape", as we understand it, was a word that existed back then. Back then, it fell under the umbrella of adultery or sex before marriage. If he lay with her, even if by force, he would still be made to marry her and she, to marry her rapist.
Do you understand now?
Well, that's a start..Yes I understand that rape is wrong.
Paying her father for her..Yes.
Where is the talk of ownership, in that verse?
Bethrothed means the person to whom one is to be married to. I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to.
The rapist paying the money to her father, is a bride price. It's the transfer of property rights by way of monetary compensation.
It was actually very common and still is very common in many parts of the world.
Because "rape" is a modern term in the context of this discussion and did not exist in that context when the text was written.Yes.
Do you understand that there is no mention of rape in that verse, according to the Hebrew lexicon.
If you wish to look at the historical meaning - "The term rape originates from the Latin rapere (supine stem raptum), "to snatch, to grab, to carry off" - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape#Etymology]
And then compare it to what you defined above:
to catch, handle, lay hold, take hold of, seize, wield
- (Qal)
- to lay hold of, seize, arrest, catch
- to grasp (in order to) wield, wield, use skilfully
- (Niphal) to be seized, be arrested, be caught, be taken, captured
- (Piel) to catch, grasp (with the hands)
You do understand this, yes?
Because it is well recognised as discussing rape.You’re the one claiming that verse is about that.
After the girl is 'seized/captured/caught/taken/arrested/etc'..I’m simply showing you that it is not. It’s simply two people having sex and getting caught.
By any definition, such acts would amount to it being rape.
The irony is that they use the same language to describe the actions of the man who is later killed... But you say that in the case of the virgin who is not betrothed, it's not rape..I already showed you what happens, in that same culture, to rapists. They get harsher punishment than rapists do today.
It says it right there in black and white...
Too bad about the virgin then..But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
In this those days women who were betrothed or married, did not engage in sexual activity outside of marriage, they were upheld as chaste.
Not looked down upon.
She's made to marry him.
You're leaving out the important thing in the context of this discussion.Lol! There’s no need to make excuses.
For those people it was all about progeny.
Not like today where it is about independence.
If you try and use today’s standard to make judgments on that culture, you will never understand it.
It was all about ownership.
No one is saying it is.I’m showing that the idea that religion/Christianity is not the cause of men abusing women.
But it has helped protect and enable the abuse of women and children.
Say what now?Anyway I know Bells has an itchy trigger finger, and will most probably ban me.
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