3/14/07 – Prison Rape?

We all hear of rape occurring often in prison from television, movies, and music but we never ask an important question about these events. How did it all start? Outside of prison one guy fucking another is gay, however in prison it is normal behavior. But what about before it all started, when there was no rape in prison. One would assume that prisoners prior to this would view it just as free men do today, gay. So how would such a disturbing and socially unacceptable act become normal?

Hypothetically one man could have decided to start doing it and then others could have heard of it and tried it for themselves. They could then have spread the practice and eventually it could have led to the current situation. I don’t think so though, I feel that if one person attempted it that the rest of the prison would view it like the majority of men do and probably would have killed the person who first tried it. This would obviously not help it spread. Maybe it started with gay inmates raping others, both gay and straight. Maybe then some of the straight men decided they enjoyed it and it spread that way. Once again I don’t see it happening this way either. I feel like if this was attempted the straight inmates, massively outnumbering the gay inmates, would be able to easily prevent it from happening for long. There is no logical answer for the start of it all. But even if there was a good answer, the explanation is not entirely complete.

Another important question to ask is how did it spread to all the prisons? If it was an isolated occurrence at one or even a few prisons it would be much more understandable. But this normally unacceptable act is so widely happening in so many places it seems that it could not have stemmed from one man or one prison. It must have been started in many or all prisons separately. So again I must ask the question of how did it all start? I guess there is no real way to come up with a positive answer and we will always be left to speculate. There is really only one logical speculation left: all prisoners must be gay. There is no other understandable reason behind these disturbing events.