A boy becoming a man quests for experiences. The penis is like eye or hand, an extension of self reaching outward. But a girl is a sealed vessel that must be broken into by force. The female body is the prototype of all sacred spaces from cave shrine to temple and church. But sex is power, and all power is inherently aggressive.
Rape is male power fighting female power.
It is no more to be excused than is murder or any other assault on another's civil rights. Society is woman's protection against rape, not, as some feminists absurdly maintain, the cause of rape. Art is a ritualistic binding or freeze frame of the perpetual motion machine that is nature. Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. Egypt invented the magic of image.