Do feminists also think about the MOTIVATION factor here?

Sorry, but that feminist line was always bologna.

Are some cases of rape about power dynamics? Yes, some.

However, many cases are simply about sex being a means to an end. For instance, men rape other men in prison out of sexual frustration/need:
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/prison-rape-research-explores-prevalence-prevention

A lot of it just about releasing pent up sexual energy, in the case of prison.

The feminist line about power also doesn't hold any water whatsoever when you consider female inmates raping other female inmates, or forcing other female inmates to perform oral acts on them. It's literally about pent up sexual frustrations and trying to build a physical connection with someone else, even if it's against their will.

In the cases where most rapes take place by strangers, a lot of its it's committed by thugs and scumbags just looking to take advantage of the woman, and -- as you noted -- it's about their own selfish gratification:
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence

Now an argument can definitely be made about an ex committing sexual assault as a power-play to either express or regain some sense of power over the individual (as a way to get back against the ex). But a lot of times it's just about someone being perverse or seeking self-gratification.

I mean, in the twisted minds of feminists, if you're not really in the mood to jerk off, but you see a hot chick and rub one out, does it mean you've raped yourself to exert power over yourself?

The male persons who rape are psychopaths. Psychopath males evolved an instinct to want to have power over other people who do not like them and because of that, psychopath males get off on power over people as part of the "psychopath psychology evolution" package.

Male persons who can feel real emotions only feel good when women display real positive feedback to them and male persons who can feel real emotions feel sad and/or embarrassed or awkward when women display negative feedback to them.

If it is alright if I say this: There is an african tribe where the women have their clitoris cut off at a certain age. That tribe does that to sexually control the women. Some woman(who is a psychopath) from that tribe had to have told the psychopath males from that tribe that the clitoris is what causes a woman to feel good. Just like that psychopath woman told the males about the clitoris, a psychopath male person must have told women that psychopath male persons also get off on the power of controlling a woman when the psychopath male person rapes a woman.

Also, to some people, not necessarily feminists, but just, err, folks in general.

The explanation "its about power" ALONE seems to be a deeply satisfying one in this case and immediately brings to attention that this matter is terrible and bad etc as if in and of itself that is not only enough, but also makes total perfect sense as if the word itself, these days or otherwise, doesn't send a feeling of dread alone through certain people's minds already.

I've also observed that, even in cinema, and let's take one KNOWN example of say male on female r**e as such, bad and inexcusable as it is in ANY case...

Some men do it out of purely (evil? terribly selfish? vicious?) awful desire to downright degrade, hurt (physically AND emotionally) etc etc their victim. See, for one, films like "Irreversible" (2002), any war film give or take including "Casualties of War" (1989) or the disturbing 2005 British drama "The Great Ecstacy of Robert Carmichael" where, HEAVY SPOILERS, after doing the dastardly deed, horrifying and wrong as it was no doubt in and of itself, they even went as far as to brutally MURDER their victims, in ways I wouldn't describe here.

And in some cases, though out of very selfish and one sides, and perhaps due to being uncivilized, maybe even at times mentally ill, etc, so called "desperate love" (or is it selfish perverse OBSESSION), like, to name one cinematic example, Pedro Almodovar's (and its a great film as well) 2002 film "Talk To Her" where, SPOILERS, he violates that young woman Alicia in a coma. ALSO, this film IS against it, yes, the man even faces CONSEQUENCES for it, BUT... It doesn't fully present the guilty individual in it Beningo as 100% PURELY EVIL VILLAIN, it even allows audience to get behind him, at best study and explore him and even try to understand him and do so in a surreal cinematic and even morbidly fascinating way with elements of black comedy. I was STILL disturbed no doubt, but... Those other examples also made me feel, well, if criteria even APPLIES here, a little WORSE, not to mention, those other individuals were presented as officially irredeemable and downright nasty creeps whereas, yeah, perhaps here he was one too, but the movie sort of treated him more as a guilty and disturbed individual, without telling the audience to say hate him like those other movies did.

And then there are rape and revenge films here too, LOADS of them. "I Spit on Your Grave" (1978) and its

Why does everybody assume there can only be one motive for rape? Can some be motivated by power while others are just motivated by a sense of sexual entitlement? As one person here put it the only common theme is that those who do it lack empathy.


So, lets take a look at Casper. He just seems like a disgusting pig who would probably hump someone’s leg like a dog if the mood fit him, not out of any desire to assert dominance, but rather that he is just to simplistically minded to see beyond his own desire for pleasure. He saw Jenny asleep, and being horny while lacking empathy he got his rocks off. While his act was a hurtful one, it was probably not his motive (although he wouldn’t care if he did).


But sure, for some it is about power.


For example, Telly. His obsession with virgins has often been seen by many as a desire for physical pleasure but I see that as a power thing. Take a look at the first girl. She was clearly in pain, yet he made no attempt to slow down. When a girl keeps saying “it hurts” that implies “stop” or at least “slow down” yet he continued going at her hard, without even the slightest attempt to slow down and be more gentle. Was that intentional sadism, or was it a focus on his own desires with a lack of regard for her suffering? I’d say the former. When he comes out of her house afterwards, he brags to Casper about how she screamed when he penetrated and how she was bleeding, like he got off on that. With the second girl, when she first says it hurts, he speeds up, and is looking intently into her eyes, like he wants to focus on her facial expression when she is in pain. If it was an indifferent desire merely for his own satisfaction would he have been looking at her face so intently? By the time Jenny opens the door, he is pounding away at her like a jackhammer, while she is still crying that it hurts. That seemed less like indifference to harm (ie Casper) and more like it made him feel powerful and dominant to hurt her like that.