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I do not feel that "needing to express love" is apart of abuse for everyone...... maybe that of a spouse or significant other that sexually abuse their loved one (maybe ?), but not that of the regular run of the mill rapist.

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Why would a rapist need to do that act? For I do see it as a need, or compulsion. What need in the rapist is not being met otherwise, that he needs to express it in that way?

I am using "love" to mean something like the need for affection or connection in the broadest possible sense. Its strangled expression is not necessarily nice.

I did not say that these were easy concepts to consider.