This suggested that rape was an outgrowth of some instinctual genetic imperative. Individual men were represented as having no control of their individual urges. The logical extension of this notion is that all men will rape or have raped. This is obviously untrue and is slanderous to those males that do not assault. All males do not assault, but some do.
Individual perpetrators are responsible for their own behavior.
Irrelevant to the victim, his intent is of critical import to the perpetrator if he chooses to try to stop. But the behavior of individuals does not exist in a vacuum, the behavior of individuals exists within a rape culture. Plainly put, forced intercourse turns a penis into a weapon. All states exempted rape in marriage from prosecution. There was language in the laws in each state of the US that exempted a husband or co-habitant from prosecution for raping his wife or partner.