Were there many "rape cases" in ancient times?

Why did "rape cases" rarely occur in ancient times? Were the ancients of high quality?

Let me answer this question.

Did ancient "rape cases" really happen rarely? In fact, there were not many cases of rape in ancient times, but there were still many cases of rape in secret. Therefore, in order to thoroughly understand why rape rarely happened in ancient times, we must analyze it from several social backgrounds.

The first social background: the "brothel" culture acquiesced by the ancient government.

If you have a certain understanding of ancient history, you can see that the culture of "prostitutes in brothels" was very popular in ancient times, and this industry existed in almost every dynasty and generation. This industry has also developed with the history of China.

In ancient times, prostitutes' business in brothels was mostly guaranteed. There were some fixed brothels all over the country, and there were not only private businesses, but also many officials and businessmen.

In order to make money, some ancient dynasties also set up so-called "official prostitutes" in various places. Official prostitutes originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and were put forward and implemented by Guan Zhong, a scholar-bureaucrat of Qi State. At first, there were only three purposes to set up this service, one was to make money, the other was to boost the morale of soldiers, and the last was to use this service to attract talents and collect intelligence.

Later dynasty rulers found that this kind of brothel service had many benefits, so this tradition was continued by many dynasties. Although some dynasties explicitly prohibited it, they secretly supported it, and many dynasties ostensibly supported the prostitute culture.

Since the rulers all support this kind of behavior, the people will naturally carry it forward thoroughly. In ancient times, the fees charged by prostitutes were high or low, which could be borne by different classes. Therefore, it is not difficult for ancient men to solve physical problems.

From another point of view, the prevalence of prostitute culture has put an end to the occurrence of rape to a certain extent, and has also had a good impact on social security. However, the influence of prostitute culture on rape cases is actually not great from a deep perspective. It can only be said that it reduces the probability of some men making physical mistakes.

The second social background: the patriarchal society runs through the whole ancient dynasty, and the idea that men are superior to women is extremely serious.

The social concept originally formed by human beings originated from matriarchal society. With the development of the times and the germination of ideas, people began to enter civilized society. However, women who used to occupy a dominant position in society were gradually dominated by men because of their poor physical quality, so ancient society officially entered the patriarchal society.

The characteristic of a patriarchal society is that men dominate the whole society, and women can only be subordinate to men. It is under the influence of this ethos that women's social status is extremely low, which leads to their lack of right to speak in society.

Even if women are bullied, they can only submit to humiliation and cannot defend themselves at all. Even if some women dare to disclose their misfortunes, society will not speak for them. Officials, nobles, gentry and other classes tend to respect men. Even if women are "raped" by other men, men in positions of power will not speak for them.

On the other hand, the reason is that ancient women regard their honor as very important, even more important than life. Most women are afraid to speak out when they are raped, for fear that the scandal will spread thousands of miles, and their parents tend to keep the girl's honor rather than hold her accountable. Therefore, women mostly take an evasive and forgetful attitude towards this experience, and there are fewer cases of rape in ancient times.

The third social background: the cost of rape in ancient times was too high for men to dare at all.

Many people only know a little about history, but they don't know the legal provisions of ancient dynasties. In ancient China, many dynasties punished rape very severely, but this punishment was not only for the perpetrators. In some dynasties, both men and women were punished if rape occurred. Men will be sent to prison to eat, and women will be sent to prison.

After the Tang dynasty, the situation was slightly better, and the perpetrators would be severely punished, not just imprisoned. After all, such immoral and insulting things as rape are unforgivable, regardless of emotion or reason, and some rapists may even be sentenced to death.

In other dynasties, the punishment for such cases was even more frightening. For example, the punishment for rape in the Ming dynasty was peeling and cramping, and then dragging it to the street for public display. Although men were superior to women in ancient times, in any case, elites had partners and spouses. Even if the elite think this kind of thing is nothing serious, their wives will not think so.

In other words, in some ancient dynasties, the punishment for rape was so severe that the woman behind the power was indispensable.

Fundamentally speaking, the punishment for committing rape in ancient times was much heavier than that in modern times, ranging from a few years' imprisonment to a heavy head. No matter how hungry the ancient men were, they also had brothels for entertainment, so they were not stupid enough to make such mistakes.

How do you think?