I must have defined it wrong…. everything you say is true, but , ( again, this is just the way I see things), all of the things you mentioned are, in a way, connected to sex and I do believe that without the possibility for the attacker to have some sort of sexual “relief” ( or whichever the right expression is ) ,none of the other things would mean much… At the end of the day, even though it is not just about sex ( you are very much right to say that it is about power) .. sex is the”centerpiece” , in any of these situations and I do not think that a potential rapist will “excersize” his disease if that “centerpiece” is taken away…

As for war=-time rape… It is a bit more complex than just an expression of power. It is very often used with a strategic purpose .. Back in 1991, when the breakup of Yugoslavia was just starting, and Bosnia was not burning, The Yugoslav ( By that time it was “Yugoslav” only in its name- the structure was completely Serbian) army came up with this analyses in it’S planning of the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in bosnia:

“ Our analysis of the behavior of the Muslim communities demonstrates that the morale, will and bellicose nature of their groups can be undermined only if we aim our action at the point where the religious and social structure is most fragile. We refer to the women, especially adolescents and to the children. Decisive intervention on these social figures would spread confusion … thus causing first of all fear and then panic, leading to a probable [Muslim] retreat from the territories involved in war activity.”

( this document — — Better known as “the Brana Plan- ”has later become the only known official document proving that an organized military force used mass sexual violence as a part of it’s overall military strategy — furthermore, that it planned the strategy for actions in Bosnia by considering rape as one of the most efficient “tools” — for reaching their goals. )

No need to point out that this strategy as well as this way of thinking about how to “solve” the problem of making people leave their homes has been “refined” in Croatia and Bosnia and then implemented to extreme during the Kosovo war. ( due to the quite traditional system of values among Kosovo Albanians they seem to have believed that the raping of our women will scare the people more than the prospect of being tortured or killed.. Which is also why so many of all of those rapes have been committed in a fashion which allowed for a “spectacle” while forcing the entire family , sometimes even the entire village, to watch it- just like it is being done today by ISIS or some Taliban elements)

Another thing, I have seen the notion repeated many times in a lot of analyses and articles written on the subject in the past few years, but I am still not convinced of the idea that rape is used as some sort of a “bonding” mechanism among those who commit it ( in this instance I am referring to the “wolf Pack” comment). But then again… I was never interested in creating such “bonds” with people so I might be wrong.

Now… the beaches are a psychological phenomena on their own and they fall under a different discussion, but I have always found them very funny…not the beaches themselves, but the entire psychological effect they have, as well as the fact that they are one of the few places were people are, generally, more sincere than in other surroundings.