Intent

On this page:

• Intent on a Timeline
• Prior Determination
• Determination During a Date
• "Wouldn't be Denied" Phenomenon

Psychological Context

• Personality
• Intent
• Positive Expectation
• Negative Expectation

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  Intent on a Timeline

• There were transcript excerpts from my doctoral dissertation that provided clear definitions and examples about one important aspect of the date rapist's personality: his intent. 

• If one thinks of the previous quotations cited under the personality section of this Web site as following a timeline:

• the first few quotations reflect an intent prior to the date, and

• the following quotations reflect a mindset during the event. 

  Determination Prior to a Date

• In this example, a participant conveyed his determination to obtain a sexual partner for the evening.  Interviewee 12 explained:

See, my motive was to either have sex with her, or, if I couldn't, I was gonna have sex with somebody else.  My mind was on havin' sex and gettin' high.  Them's the only two things on my mind right there.  [Then, while she talked on the phone with her sister:]  At this time, I said, "I'm gonna give it one more try."  So, I said to myself, "I'm gonna give this one more try.  Now, if I'm not successful, then I should go ahead and drop her off.  Go pick somebody else up."

 

  Determination During a Date

• This unwavering intent gains momentum as the date proceeds. 

   As Interviewee 16 explained:

[He said to his victim:] “I jus' want to jus' feel something in you.  That's all I wanna do."  It may not have been violent, but it was vocally violent by the fact that everything she said, I shot down.  Everything she wanted to do, I didn't wanna do.  I just wanted to ejaculate at that time.  I really wanted to have sex at that point.  Wouldn't--[I] wouldn't be denied.  

 

• The same male described his strategy for achieving the sexual objective. 

  Interviewee 16 said:

That’s one of the things that I always tried to do, was sweep a woman off her feet.  And that’s the main thing: to keep them guessing.  Keep them uh--To keep it so unpredictable, that they really don’t know what’s coming next.  And before they know it, they’re in a car with somebody that they just met earlier that day, with a yard of tongue down their throat, or whatever.  And they’re wondering--and I could see this now.  Thinking from her perspective: "How the hell did this happen?’  Or "How the hell did I end up in this position?"  And that was the main thing:  Keep her from thinking to the point where she would change her mind.

  "Wouldn't Be Denied" Phenomenon

• If one continues to follow the linear progression of the date, the date rapists' intent reaches a psychological stage where date rapists, as the man just referenced termed it, “wouldn’t be denied.” 

  Interviewee 8 profiled that phenomenon:

I knew what I was doin'.  I mean, I knew what was goin’ on and I knew where I was at, and I still had control of myself.  And I knew where, you know, I knew that this--far as I was concerned, we was goin’ somewhere with this.  And when she said “No,” I was like, “No way.”  Because, I mean, after you get past a certain point you’re not thinkin’ with your head and your blood’s just boilin’ and you wanna get release.

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