Sick, Evil, Counterproductive, Misogynistic

Sick, Evil, Counterproductive, Misogynistic

And not coming out of Islamist insanity, for once. From the March 13, 2009 Daily Mail:

Lesbians living in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will 'cure' them of their sexual orientation, a report has revealed.
Women are reporting a rising tide of brutal homophobic attacks and murders and the widespread use of 'corrective' rape as a form of punishment.
The report, commissioned by international NGO ActionAid, called for South Africa's criminal justice system to recognise the rapes as hate crimes as police are reportedly failing to take action over the spiralling violence.

As I have pointed out in the past, there is a shockingly high rate of childhood sexual abuse reported by homosexuals, both male and female, enough to give reason to suspect that adult homosexuality, at least for some, is a reaction to premature sexualization. Even homosexual men with whom I have corresponded, while denying that male homosexuality could be such a reaction, admit that it is likely that female homosexuality is such a reaction. And so rape is going to "straighten them out"? If anything, it will aggravate existing problems, and quite substantially.

I do wonder, however, from reading other parts of the article, if this might be a rationalization or justification by rapists for something that they were already planning to do:

The extent of the brutality became clear when Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa's national female football squad, became one of the victims last April.
Simelane, one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian and an equality rights campaigner, was gang-raped and beaten before being stabbed to death 25 times in the face, chest and legs.

If this is one of the examples of "rape as cure" excuse, then it makes no sense at all. They murdered her. That presents no opportunity to see this as "cure."