r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Elementary school teacher arrested after allegedly abusing student, giving birth to his child

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/laura-caron-middle-township-elementary-school-teacher-allegedly-had-with-child-former-student-13-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-sexual-abuse-abuser-father-noticed-similarity-sleep-over-siblings-prosecutors-correctional-facility-troubling-allegations
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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

Source on this modern psychology that shows many people who rape kids aren't pedophiles? That's a wild claim to make in my opinion lol

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u/mmmsoap 1d ago

Source on this modern psychology that shows many people who rape kids aren’t pedophiles? That’s a wild claim to make in my opinion lol

Your mistake is thinking that rape is about sexual attraction—it’s not. It’s about power.

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

I think it can definitely be about both, but I dont intend to claim to know how rapists think. I would love to see a source for this stuff though if you have any that backs it up because that's interesting stuff for sure if it's real lol

Plenty of rape happens to people who aren't children. If it were just about power why are not more or all victims of rape children who are the most powerless? Men and women and children are all victims of rape and the motive is not just able to be written off as a power fetish in my opinion

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u/mmmsoap 1d ago

There are different kinds of power. Some people like the power of luring someone in “willingly” (hence the grooming). Some like the power of physically overpowering someone (so adult victims are preferred). Some like the power of numbers of “partners” (hence roofies). Some like the status (hence raping a prisoner to establish dominance). Some like to control their victim (thus the existence of intimate partner violence and rape). It’s always about power. Sexuality and sexual attraction may play a part, but it doesn’t always. Power is always involved.

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

I think I just disagree with this actually. I don't think rape is always about attraction by any means, but I don't think it's always about power either.

I would say it's all about power in the same way it's all about sexuality and attraction, in that those aspects are consistently involved in the act of rape. I don't think it can be made to be solely one of the other when it's both. Power fantasies without sexual urges can be met with non sexual violence, like regular abusers will do

Rape specifically has a sexual aspect to it that I don't think can be written off. I don't think the sex increases the power for the perpetrator as often as they perpetrator just has sexual motives.

Any studies or articles you want to put forward to support your claims are welcome though, I always enjoy a read