I have a rapist friend... He was an escaped con when I met him... Had to live the straight and narrow, but was addicted to raping women... It was a big city, and he befriended street hookers, took them to his place, got high with them, and lent them money - $100 normally - and the next week he would pick them up, take them to his place, get high, and ask for his money back, and would be refused, and he would then rape the hooker... The hooker would be back the next week, to get another loan...
So he straightened out some, got married, lived straight for some years... Divorce landed him in the clutches of the local FBI - She was pretty mad at him - And he went back to prison and completed his time plus the escape...
His re-arrest made the front page of the LA Times...
These kinds of passions are hard to overcome...
First off, you have to want to overcome them...
Then you have to get serious help...
Western psychotherapy is pretty clueless, except for a few mavericks...
And those few are not all that good...
It takes an Orthodox Christian Spiritual Father...
And good ones of these are also hard to find...
But they do exist, and can be found...
I haven't seen my friend in some 30 years...
He was going to remarry...
I pray for him...
Arsenios