He is often an apparently normal individual, but one who has difficulty relating to others in a permanent or lasting fashion. According to reported cases of sexual assault, the assailant is often a friend, date, relative, co-worker, or casual acquaintence.
All rapists have the potential to be violent.
This is the most important consideration when determining how to react to sexual assault. Rapists are emotionally unstable persons who view their victims are objects, rather that people. They seek to vent their hostility, aggression, frustrations and insecurities on their victims. Sexual gratification is NOT the major motivating factor. They want to humiliate and degrade their victims, while trying to gain power and control over them.