Still in so many countries, rape laws are just for women. People still think only men can rape women (and men) and men don't get raped.

I'm making an another post this time to describe my understandings of rape and it's laws. I have always got wonderful and transperant information from this sub, expecting the same today too.

The meaning of the word rape means 'Kidnapping' , it's a latin word first got used in the Roman era. The population of young women got declined in roman due to which people started to kidnap young women from the neighbouring countries/ territories for the marriage of their young sons. To stop these abduction of young women Romans created rape law and it was a serious crime in that era too as it's happening and disturbing the relation between two or more kingdoms. This way a serious women centric rape law got created which doesn't include any sexual penile penetration. Then how, rape became a sexual crime?

Again, it's just my understanding but it must be having some relations with virgin era. Where women need to be modest and whoever crossing or outraging her modesty will get punished harshly. From my understanding, during virgin era rape laws got created to protect only virgin women and girls. Because of this, in so many countries still sex on the promise of marriage with a woman is considered as rape and that man get harshly punished. During this virgin era, this law also became religious and because of which again it became a serious religious crime and whoever the perpetrator is will get punished inhumanly.

Post virgin era, I think rape law became available for all women except married women ( it can be considered rape only when another man had sex with married women.) As there now no such thing as virginity. But I think it explains that why we still assume that only women can get raped because historically this law was there only for women for a long time more than 1000 years.

I know, now we have to move ahead and we have to make this law gender neutral, we should have to protect everyone irrespective of genders. But, I think my above analysis or understanding may have helped some people to understand the confusions around this law and the history of it. Maybe, by reaching to its roots will help us to break many stereotypes like women can't rape or the trauma which men face by getting raped is nothing and something like that etc.

Again, I am an open mind person so you can correct me if anywhere I am wrong. I was confused that why rape laws are only for women and people are not serious about rape of men or they think it's something impossible and that's why I tried to dive into the history of rape.