In our culture, however, we expect men to endure such injuries even where they are not warranted. Men are both socially and biologically expendable. The punishment of those convicted of sexual offenses is extremely severe. It reflects the hostilities that males harbor for other males who engage in sexual activity. Punishments reflect extremes of emotional and religious biases as opposed to reason.
Present punishments are cruel and irrational.
They reflect the sexual obsession and callousness of our socio-political culture. The typical punishment for rape is at least 5 times more extreme than it should be based on injury and harm done. At most, violent rape should be punished no more stringently than any other physical assault, say a barroom brawl. It is not rational to behave as if an assault upon the sexual parts of a female's body is, per se, worse than an assault upon some other part of her body, such as her face. Similarly, it is irrational to hold that an assault with a penis is wore than an assault done with a fist.