kendall, these unmen first attacked the male friend of the woman. Before I went to college on the East Coast of England, in the 60's, a group attacked the boyfriend of a student, knocked him out, and then raped her. The phrase gang rape did not exist then. I don't think the cowardice comes from avoiding men, but from attacking in groups. Nor was there any element of caste or class involved - I don't suppose that the men would have known the woman was a student.

And I don't think castration would solve anything where the beasts could use metal bars, bottles, rifles or other weapons for penetration. I also remember reading a life of Peter Abelard where it was explained that in his time, where the action was more widely understood than now, he was still regarded as a threat to Heloise celibacy after the punishment her uncle inflicted on him.

What really puzzles me is why some men are able to get into a state to carry out rapes which are so associated with violence and hate. It can't be adrenaline's fight and flight effects, which notably shut down all functions except those needed for battle - and I would have thought that a concentration of blood flow anywhere but in the muscles and the brain would be a major distraction and counter to survival.

It's clear that that idiot politician's belief about women's bodies being able to prevent conception after rape is wrong, because these unmen would have evolved their abilities out of the genome in short order. They do seem to try very hard to enable that to happen by the use of weapons, but have unfortunately failed.

Other mammals do not seem to show this sort of behaviour (unless it has been under reported) - perhaps aggressive unwanted penetration, but it seems to be obviously associated with procreation, not destroying the female. (I believe mallards have been reported gang raping females, sometimes holding the head down so the female drowns, but it does seem to be more of a breeding frenzy than what happens in humans. And mallards are notably stupid and not capable of engaging what brain they have. Saw a femalke lay an egg on the lawn, walk away and not notice the crow which immediately broke it open.)

It's clear that this sort of behaviour does not occur in all men. (Despite the African militia leader who explained his unmen's behaviour as understandable because "they are only human".) Most find it appalling. Men are not all potential rapists. As the Met Police poster claims "Real Men don't rape."

As for public executions - in ancient Rome, it was known that those who had observed the bloodshed of the circus were very ready to engage in sexual behaviour as they emerged from the theatre. Given this extraordinarily peculiar link between violence and erections, do we want to encourage it?