All previous generations of human beings of which we are aware knew that male sexual nature is predatory. Without strong moral values working to inhibit this nature, men will grab women to whom they are attracted to use for sexual pleasure — as males in the animal world do. The very same people who insist that human beings are just another animal will often deny this animal aspect of male nature. They will argue that men are socially conditioned to see women as sex objects — by our “Playboy culture,” or sexist ads, or pornography, or even “patriarchy.”
The people who make this argument not only disregard their own belief that human beings are animals, they put the cart before the horse: The Playboy culture, ads depicting women as sexual objects, and pornography are the result of male nature, not the reverse. And what “social conditioning” in the past caused men to rape? Or causes men from Muslim countries that have no Playboy culture — and where nearly all women are fully covered — to commit sexual assault?
Given that this is how men are programmed, why is there so much denial of the obvious?
Dennis Prager, “The Cologne Rapes and Our Culture of Denial”, Jewish Journal (22-28 January 2016), 10.