‘Opposite sex’- the term brings multi-layered images to the human mind. One of these is ‘attraction’. Professor Ismat Zarin reports.
While growing as an individual somehow we, the females, more often come across to the word, ‘rape’ more than the word ‘love’, as the female body is the embodiment of the concept of ‘attraction’ in males which according to the society, can be tarnished. Therefore, it is mostly referred to make us cautious to secure our ever cherished ‘chastity’!
Now a few years back, the word of caution would come to us as soon as we reached puberty. However, now that we have instances before us of six months. old female toddlers being raped, how would the society put the word of caution? Thus, I would like to shed light on the core of this distortion of desirability whilst keeping it under the lens of the ‘law of attraction’ theory.
It is a common belief that rape results due to an irresistible attraction towards the female body due to certain factors, e.g. body features, clothing, and the behavior of the particular female. If these are to be considered, then how does a six-month toddler be considered to create such an attraction? Where does this horrendous applying our law of attraction theory?
Let us then go back to the root cause of the phenomenon in certain men again. Is it really an attraction then? Does it really occur because of the external factors that experts say are the deciding factor for the attraction in men’s minds? Or, is it a built-in phenomenon in the minds of therapists?
Saying all these though, the thoughts that again struck my mind is, is this perversion a distorted form of the ever customary ‘law of attraction’?
Ismat Zarin is an Assistant Professor at University of Asia Pacific and WhatsOn columnist.
