gnu, you may very well be missing something here.

It seems to be endemic among many rich and powerful men that because they are "Alpha Males" in the world in general, any woman that they deign to find attractive should be more than happy to be the recipients of their seed. With some, it never seems to occur to them that it could be otherwise, and when the woman resists, they assume she's just being coy.

Note the number of rich, famous, and powerful men (politicians, businessmen, athletes, actors, ) that are regularly caught in sex scandals. And many of these sex scandals involve forcible sex.

The more I hear about Strauss-Kahn, the more he sounds like the Charlie Sheen of the financial world.

"SURE, women want to sleep with me! I have tiger's blood and Adonis genes!!"
                                                                                                    —Charlie Sheen

He recently got his ass canned from "Two and a Half Men" (a weekly half-hour TV comedy) for demanding $1,500,000 per episode. "I'm worth it!" he insisted.

"No, you're not!" responded CBS.

Both Charlie Sheen and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are examples of the fact that, by their assumption of extraordinary privilege, these "Alpha Males", in addition to the harm they do to others, can be stupidly self-destructive.

Don Firth