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Men Raping Men

A dangerous grim scenario facing male Overseas Filipino Workers a continuation of The Dangers Men Face in Unlikely Situations.

How do we address this problem of men being assaulted by other men with the intent of rape? Rape among the same sex is what we hear inside of the prison cells but rape outside the confines of a cell? It appears that the victims and the aggressor are not gay seems to defy what is “normal” or unlikely players in this situation. The question that comes to mind is if this is an isolated incident or are the incident/s prevalent?

One Reynaldo Cortez was beheaded when he defended himself from such act of aggression with intent to rape when he foiled the sexual molestation and killed the Pakistani cab driver. The sad part is under the Sharia law where he was found guilty his fate lies on the decision of the victim’s family if they will pardon the “guilty” by accepting “blood money” (dumb, stupid, unfair and truly revolting law that belongs to the middle ages) or decapitate his head. That is just so inhumane and unfortunate that the relatives who are still grieving at their loss will likely decide not on the legal merits of the case but guided by their grief, loss, and most likely anger and humiliation on the cause of death of attempting to rape a man..


Gang Rape as Punishment

I am reminded of the experience of Mukhtarai Mai in remote hamlet of Meerwala who was sentenced by a higher caste clan of being subjected to gang rape. All this started when a woman from the said powerful clan was supposedly subjected by a younger male (more of a boy) brother of Mai who happens to belong to a lower caste clan of “indecent sexual acts”.

The brother Abdul Shakoor then a 12-year-old had been seen walking with a girl from the more influential Mastoi tribe; they demanded Mai's rape to avenge their "honor." Mai's family sat helplessly while she was dragged into a room, even as she screamed and pleaded for mercy. This would have been corruption of minor in most parts of the civilized world had there been an actual sexual act of any kind but those ignoramuses treated as “rape” walking beside their "precious" lady. Not only was Mai gang raped she was paraded naked in the village by these cruel sorry ass of a barbaric human being.

They also kidnapped Mai’s younger brother beaten, tortured, and RAPED all that for "inappropriately" walking beside a woman. Yes, you read it right he was raped by MEN of the powerful clan and unfortunately for Mai’s brother his attackers who call themselves men went scott free for their deviant sexual act.

If you have men that see nothing wrong with rape and even see rape as an instrument of punishment is it possible that this Pakistani man that tried to molest Cortez possess that same medieval tribal mindset? Why do they do that, is it because these countries do not have laws that are clear cut on what constitute rape and as such like animals will attack a likely victims that are in the lower totem pole of a highly prejudicial ignorant society with no clear concept on equality? Is it their ignorance and the hold of medieval tribal culture that belongs to the medieval past in this highly evolved globalization still clinging to their sickening past?



Why Men Rape

In “Why Men Rape” published by the New York Academy of Science, in January/February 200 Darwinian perspective was brought into the picture. A different perspective in looking at rape opposed to social scientist view that this kind of behavior is learned and can be unlearned. The Darwin theory of procreation in the survival of the fittest in relation to the species that mates the most assured their existence as a basis for understanding rape? Here is a quote from a section of the paper Why men Rape under the sub heading of, RAPE: NATURE VS. NATURE;

Why, then, have the editors of scholarly journals refused to publish papers that treat rape from a Darwinian perspective? Why have pickets and audience protesters caused public lectures on the evolutionary basis of rape to be canceled or terminated? Why have investigators working to discover the evolutionary causes of rape been denied positions at universities?

The reason is the deep schism between many social scientists and investigators such as ourselves who are proponents of what is variously called sociobiology or evolutionary psychology. Social scientists regard culture. everything from eating habits to language. as an entirely human invention, one that develops arbitrarily. According to that view, the desires of men and women are learned behaviors. Rape takes place only when men learn to rape, and it can be eradicated simply by substituting new lessons.

Sociobiologists, by contrast, emphasize that learned behavior, and indeed all culture, is the result of psychological adaptations that have evolved over long periods of time. Those adaptations, like all traits of individual human beings, have both genetic and environmental components. We fervently believe that, just as the leopard. s spots and the giraffe. s elongated neck are the result of aeons of past Darwinian selection, so also is rape.

That conclusion has profound and immediate practical consequences. The rape-prevention measures that are being taught to police officers, lawyers, parents, college students and potential rapists are based on the prevailing social-science view, and are therefore doomed to fail. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is the most powerful scientific theory that applies to living things. As long as efforts to prevent rape remain uninformed by that theory, they will continue to be handicapped by ideas about human nature that are fundamentally inadequate. We believe that only by acknowledging the evolutionary roots of rape can prevention tactics be devised that really work.
Is it the Darwinian hangover that probably causes men to rape…… but looking at men raping men, procreation was farthest from their mind? These perverted behaviors just don't make sense and surely scientist will have a huge problem doing a study in a subject that is taboo in that part of the world. To make matter worse in the course of looking for answers to fully grasp this despicable behavior I saw this unfathomable incident.

Some Unbelievable Perversion

The quote below is from a post titled “More than Just Sympathy” from Liquid Tension Site of Francis Oca;

Dito sa Saudi Arabia, kapag wala kang bigote ang tingin sa iyo ng mga Arabo ay para kang isang babae. Ngayon kung medyo mistisohin ka pa, maganda ang katawan, matabok ang puwit, at laging bagong paligo at mabango, asahan mong pagtritripan ka nila dahil sa kanilang paningin isa kang sexy star. (Here in the Saudi Arabia if you have no mustache they see you as a woman. If you have fair complexion, good shapely body with big butt newly showered and smelling good you are seen like a “sexy star” that can get them aroused.)

Si Ed ay cashier noong araw sa Al Kharj branch ng aming company. Tuwing umaga trabaho niya ang ideposito ang collections of the previous day sa down town. Dahil may kalayuan din ang aming office sa downtown kung saan naroroon ang mga banko, kinakailangan niyang bumiyahe sakay ng taxi. Isang umaga, Yemeni ang driver ng nasakyan niyang taxi pabalik sa opisina. Dahil seguro guwapo at malinis sa katawan si Ed, pinagtripan daw siya ng driver. Hindi naman siya ginalaw. Inilabas lang naman nong driver ang ari niya at nilarolaro habang nagdradrive. Takot na takot si Ed ng dumating sa opisina. Sabi namin na pasalamat siya at hindi siya dinala sa disyerto. May mga storya kasi na sa disyerto daw kadalasan dinadala ng mga rapist ang kanilang biktima. At doon na nila iiwan pagkatapos abusuhin. Mula noon hindi na bumibiyahe si Ed ng mag-isa. (Ed is a cashier in our company’s Al Khari branch. He is tasked to deposit collections of the previous day every morning in downtown. Since the bank is quite a distance from our office he has to take a cab. In one of his morning trips he happens to have a Yemeni to take him back to the office. Ed being well groomed had the scare of his life when the driver exposed his penis and proceeded to masturbate while driving. He was so scared knowing that men are brought to the desert to be raped and abandoned; luckily the pervert did not touch or tried to rape him. His harrowing experience had him traveling with a companion for his safety.)
Now how can we explain that? Are these repressed gay men having a problem grappling with their sexuality in a society that arrest and behead people whose sexual preference are of the same sex? If that is the case, how can we explain men gang raping a 12 year old boy as punishment by rich clan caste leaders? Do these “men” enjoy raping a 12 year old boy? What is odd is that the older women “victim” of “rape by walking inappropriately with a boy” even filed a rape case in a Pakistani court. While it was dismissed no one seemed to pay attention to Abdul (Mai’s younger brother) who is also a rape, torture and abduction victim here, is it normal for men to rape boys or men as long as it is sanctioned by powerful caste leaders?
Courage and Desperation

In Jean P. Sasson's book "Princess a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia", we are able to see a glimpse of perverted mindset in a society living in the past with too much money and idle time. This is a society trapped in time desperately hanging on to the tribal culture of the middle ages in the way they treat their women and the cruelty of men against their women. In it we see a society where men can decide to end the lives of their women that are seen as a possession whose purpose in life is to satisfy and give birth in the propagation of their clan.

There is one particular horrible story that was in the book and this is about the maid of the Princess named Marci a Filipina and her friend Madeline. Inspiring tale of courage and daring shown by Marci and Antoine one of the Princess Filipino driver who risked everything in locating a friend in distress. The risk and danger they took is almost good for a suspense movie script but this is one is real and dangerous. You had that yearning for a good ending but this is real life where the ending is not what one expects in a feel good movie.

They found Madeline alright in a dingy villa owned by a Yemeni who abused and used Madeline as one of her sex reliever to satisfy his dog like sex cravings. A family sex toy for the sons, trapped in a hell hole did her best to escape only to be returned by the villagers to her inhumane pervert “master”. Upon learning of her friend’s plight Marci was frantic did everything she could calling up the consulate only to be rebuffed with indifference and acceptance of helplessness. On her return to the Philippines she tried her best to present the problem of Madeline to their local politicians but no one lifted a finger. The sad part is her friend was not on speaking terms with her when her contract expired thinking she was abandoned by her friend. Why did they not complain to the police, the Princess inquired? Truly sickening when Marci replied that the police never listen to complains of Filipinos and a woman in a society where the words of a man is taken as absolute truth the chances of the victim thrown to jail is more likely to happen.

Meanwhile in Abu Dhabi it appears that they have “five runaway maids” (in one of the email from Curtis of streetwisephilippines3 a yahoo group) every week that the consulate has to convert their garage into make-shift dormitory to accommodate the swelling number of abused Filipinas. The best they can do or hope for is to get the employer to pay the woman's ticket home, never mind pressing charges or their salary. In a highly prejudicial society where woman are treated like commodities what more with “servants” and a woman at that has no chance of being heard in a court of law that is male superiority oriented.

Luckily for the professional OFWs as Curtis further stated has not been affected or victimized unlike those in the labor and domestic jobs, is it because they are easy targets in might is right society? What are we going to do about it? What is the government doing about it? How should we respond to all these barbaric treatment of our countrymen?

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Anonymous said...

I do understand the Darwinian perspective on rape. It isn't saying that the behavior of raping is good or that the rapists have "procreation" in their minds when they do the act. But rather, it meant that (I'll quote from Thornhill and Palmer's reply to their critics):

"We argue that a desire for sexual stimulation, not a desire to
produce offspring, is a proximate cause of raping and is the common
denominator across human rapes of all kinds. Men’s sexual ardor is, in ultimate terms, a product of past selection pressure that favored it because it increased sexual access to many females of reproductive age."

Perhaps the selection pressure is the pressure that males who had sex with the most women are more manly, more favored, and more wanted. The raping behavior is a misfire from the natural selection behavior that men copulate with more women to better preserve their genes.

It also does not say that rape is inevitable because it is "genetic". Remember that behaviors are products of both environment and genes. The study was about how "evolutionary knowledge may be applied to achieve desirable social goal of reducing rape."

Here's the article:

Rape and Evolution: A Reply to Our Critics
Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/THOUH/thornhill-preface.pdf

fidel_umaga said...

Men raping Men.

I would rather reserve my comment on why men rape men and talk about it as an example or in representation of the generic danger that our OFWs face when they work in foreign soil.

The dangers that stalk our people in Diaspora are truly numerous both for themselves and for the very people they left behind when they took the risk of working in a land foreign to their birth and culture. Many of our people who usually fell victims to these dangers, with such traumatic consequences if not with fatal results, are usually those who are less educated in our society. Precisely because of their lack of education, they could not compete for whatever available but scarce opportunities back home and are thus forced to leave the country for the proverbial greener pasture.

It is so unfortunate to many of our people that one of the very reasons that compel them to seek livelihood outside the Philippines is also a bane to many of them when they found work outside the Philippines. Without the necessary educational qualification or skilled experience, many of our people in Diaspora are simply forced to accept any job as long as it will bring food and a sense of security for their family in the Philippines. They simply do not have a choice. And usually, it is this kind of job that is more fraught with danger.

I think the government should seriously adopt a policy of educating our people of the possible dangers that await them if they work in a foreign country, with special emphasis on the difference in our laws and culture with those foreign countries. That what ever they lack in education should be augmented with the proper and necessary training both for skilled and technical jobs. While their informative knowledge on the culture and law of their target country and added training might not totally prevent our OFWs from being a prey to dangerous elements, his added education and training may somehow level their playing field in a foreign land.

Parallel to this, the government should also have an existing contingency plan designed to address similar recurring problems and not to react naively as if it is caught by surprise. For our government to belatedly consider these problems of our OFWs as if we have been introduced to this phenomenon only yesterday and not 3 decades ago is simply criminal.

Another point to consider to is to see to it that our diplomatic corps sent to man our embassies or consulates in identified problem countries must be of such qualifications that they are not only very knowledgeable in the culture and laws of these countries but they must possess a great deal of talent in human and political relations. Often times, some members of our diplomatic corps are themselves part of the problems of our OFW because the former are purely political appointees without any qualification whatsoever to represent and stand for our people in that foreign soil. Many of them are so idiotic, they themselves are not aware of it.

This is the least our government could do ever since it has proven itself inutile to ward off the continues hemorrhage of our labor force to outside countries, and by default, has implicitly adopted the exportation of Philippine Labor Force as part of its grand economic plan.

On the other hand, existing NGOs which were established to support our OFW must continue and improve their proactive activities and initiatives to educate, provide support system, lobby for our OFW with the government agencies concerned. We cannot rely on the presumed goodwill of our government to help our OFW. This government is simply unreliable and selfish. This is not a solitary statement. We have seen how it handled its responsibility towards the OFW before, and the results are very educational.

Nobody but nobody will help us. Only we Filipinos could save our OFWs. Until we have leaders who are willing to be for our people, until our people could see that in helping others they are also helping themselves, until we truly believe that it is only when we have that personal catharsis of being a man for others will there be a change for the better back home. It is happening slowly but it is there already. We just have to keep the fire burning until that fire is lit in the heart of every one of us because we know that until that day comes, many of us will continue to fall prey to the dangers of working in an unknown inhospitable foreign land.

Unknown said...

They are gay! They would not have that erection if they're were not sexually aroused to begin with.

They're similar with those in prison. They are what i call "unconsious homosexuals"

Years ago when i was younger and goodlooking i sat beside a Persian guy inside the jeepney. He was doing some sexual advances on me discreetly.

Anonymous said...

F@ck those goddamn Barbaric Muslim countries especially Pakistan.
Their religion and tradition causes Men to divert their sexual lusts to their fellow Men.

Getting married and getting laid off is so expensive! you are actually BUYING your soon-to-be-wife

That is why the poor Men in their country is raping fellow men.

I've heard of these incidents a couple of times. Filipinos being their primary target. Those rapists get away with that, and when they were killed on the process, the supposed "victim" will surely pay a price of death or decapitation..

GOD DAMN MUSLIMS!

Merit said...

Men raping Men.

There are certain things in this world that are beyond man's convention. We have the law on physics, gravity or the fact that the sun will always rise in the East and sets in the West and many more along that line. For man to change those that are not from his hands, is not natural and is tantamount to tampering nature, an act that imposes usurious interest to the offender.

What rather changes are certain physical attributes of man or his reactions or perspective to things as he evolves and adopt himself to the changes of time. But basically, man's nature remains the same including the fact that he is still a part of Nature. Being part of nature, he is governed by the same ineluctable order that governs everything in this universe. One of these orders is that sex is designed for its primordial purpose - for procreation, propagation and survival of the specie. Thus, sexual relations between two normal adults of the opposite sex of the same specie are deemed natural while those between the same sexes or between different species are called un-natural. It is for the same reason that nature disfavors in-breeding . The logic is simple. It goes against the grain of nature why sex, in all its grandeur, exists at all. Thus, sex between the same gender of the same specie or between two different species, regardless of gender of the parties, if pursued for its basic purpose, is contrary to nature and is deviant. The same natural injunction exists in sexual relationship between parents and off-springs or between siblings. Human society calls this relationship incestuous.

However the act of RAPE by , regardless of the gender of the parties, is always unnatural, deviant and criminal. It is an act of control over the other through the use of violence. Rape does not deserve the approbation of any civilized society. No amount of social convention, be it religious or evolutionary, should justify the heinous crime of RAPE.







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Elmer said...

I agree with Jeffrey and Agnostic, show this people a female goat and they would hit it..this are sick people. In history they are people from Sodom and Gomorrah (they are survivor of this wicked place).

Anonymous said...

I think Fidel pointed a crucial issue that will give us a better grasp on the abuse and exploitation our OFWs faced in the middle east.

Patronage politics has seeped into the foreign relations department and as such some of those tasked to look into the welfare of our people are ill-equipped or lack the necessary knowledge and skills to deal with the problem. We need to pursue this and look further in order for us to come up with a collective approach and hopefully prevent this exploitation and abuses.

As far as the scientific basis of rape, I really have no problem with the contending theories or perspective presented. What matters most is how to prevent and if our people are victimized what measures should our government institute and how we should respond to protect our people.

Our abhorrence for the deviants should not affect the way we look at people in that part of the world it will be unfair to generalize because we then become part of the problem.

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Unknown said...

I believe the younger brother was acquitted of the rape charges..... had it not been highly publicised and caught the attention of the international press he would have been languishing in a Pakistani prison..... all because he dared talk to a woman that belongs to a higher caste. A mortal sin enough for him to get charged with rape and was subjected to gang rape together with her sister Mukhtar. I was wondering if the Pakistani authorities filed criminal charges for the wrong they had done to him too which probably the book did not mention.

Sure, it's a deal lets check out each others blog from time to time.

Anonymous said...

There's always a question in my mind for the matter of "men liking men issue" that prevails usually in the Muslim country and mostly in the Middle East. I used to ask some people what is the protection of those men who had been a victim of the situation.

Agnostic is so true about his statement that their religion and tradition causes men to divert their sexual lusts to their fellow men.

If you have watched "The Kite Runner" which was set in Afghanistan there was a scene that a group of boys raped a young boy and that is prevalent even now in most of the Islamic countries.

I just talked to my Pakistani assistant right now and I told him not to get offended and I directly asked him the question "Why do these Pakistani people are liking men especially Filipinos?" He told me that these are the men who are uneducated and mind is just occupied by "sex" alone and for them anyone they see who is prim, they feel sexual urge. I experienced to be liked by these people Pakistani, Arabs from all denominations, Afghans, Indians but I was educated enough how to manage things accordingly. I am gay and for some this would be an advantage for them. Imagine a number of people whose looking after you. Until I let them entertain, then it will happen. But they cannot ruin my dignity and I have learned the art of rescuing myself once abuse will occur.

Fidel Umaga is true to his statement that it happens to less educated. But what about the case of those with consent? I mean the gays who really wanted to "do" something with another men? I've read once in a news that there was this Filipino guy who filed a case in the court against one Iranian national for the case of rape. While there was an investigation, they found out that the Filipino slept with that Iranian. Where is the rape here? At first he allowed himself to be brought to the room of the Iranian guy?

Unknown said...

Rape is one of those very difficult case to prosecute due to the stigma and shame it brings to the victim. That being said most victims are not willing to relive their sad experience in court and most of the time it's the victim's word against the attacker since there are no witnesses to begin with.

I think it does not matter whether one is gay or straight because no one has the right to force themselves on an unwilling partner.

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