Hey guys. So I was sexually abused by my cousin (who was 25 at the time) at the age of 6 and it eventually progressed to rape at the age of 8.

I am now 20 and in the last year I have just started “getting over” or moving on from the traumatic experience, due to my wonderful therapist and help from my family, after I finally told someone about it when I was 19.

So I read that in the US, 1 out of every 6 women will have experienced an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. (Men do get raped too, but I was not able to find reliable statistics on how many in the US)

So my question is.. in your opinion, why is rape still so prevalent? Why do you think rapists rape people? Do you think it is a mental illness, bad choices, not able to “help” theirselves (😷) - growing up to think it was okay, being born shitty, etc? I have read so many different theories and opinions about why rapists do what they do. I have never been able to understand why they do it..

So what are your opinions?