Porn? Libido? Alcohol? What utter rubbish.
Sorry, but it's true. Rape is a power play, and some men just revel in that power. It's usually after they've gotten away with other crimes, and the next step is murder. All of you here desire women, or men, and all women desire men or other women, that's based on sexuality and nothing more. You may look at someone gorgeous, or someone wearing revealing clothes in real life or tv, and get turned on even, but how does that lead to rape?
Anyone on this forum claiming to "not watch porn" is lying, and we all know it. How many of you have ever been tempted to rape even after spending an entire day watching porn? Obviously no one will answer that, but I'm betting zero.
Many of you drink as well I assume, (I don't for the record, but all my friends do), did you ever find yourself thinking about raping someone when high or drunk? Yes you may drink alcohol and find yourself thinking you are suddenly Gods gift to women, and flirting with them or acting macho, and making a fool of yourself, but if you think you might ever drag a girl / woman into a dark spot and rape when under the influence please seek psychiatric help immediately.
Rapists typically do not even see a woman as a woman, she's just a toy to be used and discarded, and no better than an animal.
True, the patriarchal mindset in India does make it easier for most Indian men to see women as inferior, and that does contribute to the Indian problem to some extent. Yes culture shocks also may account for a tiny fraction of the cases, but it still has to be within the context of seeing women as inferior, or just good for one thing.
Some have even suggested that the reason is arranged marriage. A boy goes about looking at pure physical qualities of various women, chooses one who he feels will make a good lay, gets married and then has his way with her as and when he pleases for the rest of his life. It's just another way of making women inferior, by giving them no say in who they marry and indeed sleep with. Now educated society usually has ways to enhance this experience and gives the girl also a say, but in villages they aren't so lucky.
It's not just the men, it's families in general. We still have millions who truly believe that men are better - thus the continued female infanticide cases. Girl children are abandoned in dumpsters, killed before being born - what message are we sending? Most Indian families, especially mothers, are as equally to blame, because to them the son is special, and the daughter is a burden. When your very upbringing tells you that you're superior, how can you not expect that some of these men will take their superiority to criminal extents.
We are also taught that power is everything. The rich display power, they can get the poor into trouble with their contacts. The police are brazen with their power, and can walk up to you and slap you if they don't like your face. The politician can do the same, but even with the police he controls, so he has ultimate power. Thus we are a society of power hungry people, who strive to better their lives through any means necessary, which usually involved crime and corruption. Once you bend a few morals, what are a few more? If you can give a bribe, why not accept one? Everyone else does it anyway. If you can jump a red light, why not run away after you hit someone? Anyway no one will listen to your story because you are richer and thus resented for having more power. There is no right and wrong in India, just power and opportunity. We bow to power easily, but wait for the opportunity for the tables to turn in our favour. If you see a rich chap in a car knock down a motorcyclist who was being an idiot by weaving through traffic, we automatically sympathise with the bike chap, because what do these rich car guys think they are?
We have become an overpopulated nation of power hungry people, always resenting everyone else, and with the knowledge that the "law" is really non existent for most everyday scenarios, and justice is purely what you perceive it to be, depending on how much power you hold.
International studies show that rapists are no better than murderers, because its a power game, and they like the high of having total power over someone. That manifests as stabbing someone with a knife, or with their penises, it's really no different - because the end result is an attempt to feel powerful by reducing a victim to a beggar, pleading for mercy. That's the turn on there, not the body. This is usually true for the regular rapist acting alone.
However, in the Indian context, this also happens in a society where everyone wants power and resents those with more of this power than them. We all know that all power in India is gained criminally - rich get richer by evading taxes, black money, bribing politicians to get favours, etc, police get power by NOT following the law, politicians get elected by using underhanded tactics, and corruption... So how can we not expect the ones with criminal intent to turn out as bad as they are? There is no fear of retribution - you will fight on the road knowing that you will not be caught. 5 of you together will always threaten bodily harm to a group of 2 and yet be easily intimidated by a group of 20, does it matter who's right and who's wrong? Thus the rise in gang rapes - the sense of power is heightened in a group.
As I mentioned in a different thread, only fear can save us now. An ultimate power that reduces all these local goons and criminals into nothing. If all of us well meaning citizens of the country got together, came out on the streets with lathis and swords by the thousands, and beat up every roadside Romeo who pinched a girl's body or passed lewd comments, you can bet the instances would reduce and women would feel safer, but then who would govern this group of do gooders? If 10,000 members of your locality walked down the road catching criminals and forcing the police to register cases, you can bet things would get done, but who is going to rally the people? Politicians? No, because then you end up with an agenda that's corrupt to begin with.
The bottom line is, unless the law is enforced, nothing happens, but if the upholders of the law themselves are corrupt, then what? I see India either headed down the drain and the lives of common people getting worse by the year, and everyone just adjusting and saying such is life. Or else we will end up with Egypt and Syria like revolts, where police and politicians will be burnt at the stake as they deserve. It's time to sink or swim, and I'm looking forward to seeing whether we Indians will ever be able to stand up and revolt, or will we continue being the badly beaten, hard working horses that some people exploit for their gain. Only time will tell.