Identify and define the four categories of rapists.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• Naive graspers are usually sexually inexperienced youths with an unrealistic conception of female erotic arousal. Awkward in relating to the opposite sex, they hold high expectations that their crude advances will be met with affection by their victims.
• Meaning stretchers are the most typical rapists, the date rapists. They stretch the meaning of, or misinterpret, a woman’s or date’s expressions of friendliness and affection as indicating that the female desires coitus even when she says no.
• Sex looters have little desire for affection and/or little respect for the victim’s autonomy and callously use women as sex objects. This type figures in the stranger-precipitated rape that is most likely to be reported to the police.
• Group conformers participate in group rapes or gang bangs, often following the leader, a sex looter, out of a need for conformity and a perverted notion of demonstrating masculinity.