Why would someone ever commit a sexual assault?
(Pasting one of my Quora answers) 1. S/he thinks that s/he can get away with it with negligible consequences. 2. S/he is so short-sighted, being blind in sexual compulsion, that s/he isn't seeing the bigger picture of what s/he is doing. (It's often 'he'.) A nonlinear combination of these two leads to an atrocity of rape or sexual harassment. Reason #2 is especially true in cases where one regrets one's act (minutes after the crime) when one faces society or realizes what devastating impact it had on the victim. Looking back, I could see a part of me that might have been tempted to do something that can be called sexual harassment. But I decided to experiment with things with myself instead of messing with other bodies. But now I am out of that zone. I know I can control it & I can wait. I might even be able to saturate it within myself until my death if time demands. Now, my experiments have turned more psychological in nature. Y...