"Once we accept as basic truth that rape is not a crime of irrational, impulsive, uncontrollable lust, but is a deliberate, hostile, violent act of degradation of possession on the part of a would-be conqueror, designed to intimidate and inspire fear, we must look toward those elements in our culture that promote and propagandize these attitudes, which offer men, and in particular, impressionable, adolescent males, who form the potential raping population, the ideology and psychological encouragement to commit their acts of aggression without awareness, for the most part, that they have committed a punishable crime, let alone a moral wrong.

The myth of the heroic rapist that permeates false notions of masculinity, from the successful seduced to the man who "takes what he wants when he wants it," is inculcated in young boys from the time they first become aware that being male means access to certain rites and privileges."

-Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape