Scully and Marolla discussed psychopathological assumptions on the conduct, psychological processes, and instincts of rapists. They found out that the psychopathological model of rapists’ behavior views rape as a result of mental dysfunction and claims that rapists are always unwell and lack self-control. Research indicated that male sexual vigor is unusual and that medical practitioners disregard the medical sector’s probabilities for causes of this behavior. The study also aimed to widen Black’s theory that rapists’ conduct and psychological procedures can be studied using the gender association mode. Researchers have indicated that men relied on cultural excuses to view their behavior as proper. These men disclosed how they used rape to reach various goals. Some men used rape for vengeance or punishment to women who offended them. The ideas, terms, and methods used in sexual aggressive pornography are always expressed by rapists to justify their behavior.
The researchers interviewed 114 sentenced rapists in Virginia prison in 1980 and 1981. The interviews comprised 89 pages covering the respondents’ mental, criminal, and sexual histories and contained questions that permitted each prisoner to explain their feelings, plans, and behaviors. To ensure good feedback, the analysts compared the explanations obtained from respondents to their case files. In the findings, some rapists regarded their behavior as a good act of vengeance for an offense committed against them by other people. Others thought they had the right to discipline women or use rape to prove their supremacy. Some of the respondents argued that their prime intention was theft; however, they took an opportunity for rape. Sexual access was also a determinant of multicultural rape cases. Few inmates reported having regrets, while others compared rape to any bad practice that they cannot stop once they begin.
The findings verified that rape is more than a mental health sickness and that most normal men can commit rape. This study demonstrated that some men rape because they realize that sexual violence is not an offense in their culture. Additionally, instead of supporting the idea that rape is an unprecedented act of a sick man, the findings encourage the perspective that rape results from the continuity of sexually aggressive behaviors that benefit men and exploit women.