705. Age Is No Protection
In entry 246, I wrote about how women's lives are overshadowed by conscious and subconscious realistic fears.
Mentioning my apprehension, that male libido can be a hazard to women, I have been getting the reaction, that at my age I were too old to be at risk. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
I just read in the newspaper, that a woman of 64, which is also my age, has been brutally raped by a 15 year old boy, while alone doing exercises in the forest.
Age is no protection against the risk of becoming the victim of sexual violence or of the insult of the uninvited approach with the proposal of self-abuse.
This risk depends on three factors:
- the man's libido
- the man's cognitive control
- the triggering power of the attraction of the victim's body
The attraction of women's bodies diminishes with age. As long as young women are available, they are predators' first choice as victims. This keeps the focus away from the old ones and this puts the young women at the highest risk.
Men become dangerous predators, when the libido is stronger than their cognitive control. Male libido also diminishes with age, while growing maturity usually adds to the cognitive control.
Therefore the younger a man, the higher the probability of his being a dangerous predator.
But cognitive control can not only be weak because of mere immaturity. It can be lacking also due to mental or emotional disturbance and derangement.
But cognitive control can not only be weak because of mere immaturity. It can be lacking also due to mental or emotional disturbance and derangement.
In the case of (predominantly young) men with high libido and insufficient cognitive control, young women would be the preferred victims, but if none is available, any woman of any age is at risk.
