Comments like
will only cause a racially based discussion and cause people to argue, which is completely pointless and NOT the stuff of intelligent discussion. As for your comment Krigloch, you're as racist as you are stupid. Post something constructive for gods sake.
As far as my opinion on this goes... Its quite odd, the timing of this topic. At the moment here in Sydney there is a horrible gang rape case in the news, and it makes one pause and consider an apparent rise in gang rapes over the last x years.
Some may argue that there is a tie to immigrants as a cause, and while I have mixed views on this, I also would like to mention what I consider as an equally significant cause:
raunch culture.
IMO raunch culture, now the most recognised & accepted social trend in Westernised countries paints a picture of acceptance of sexually unequal beliefs and a paradox of anti-feminist thinking within the minds of women who are part of it (although they somehow rediculously claim they're feminists).
However, it's from the male perspective that I think the cause comes from: the spread of ghetto culture where demoralisation of women is rife has now become an everyday part of your television, music, clothing and advertising.
Everything is now "pornographied", moral systems have been corroded and everything women fought for in the 1970s has been singlehandedly destroyed by "The Rise Of The Ghetto" and it's current day co-practice between blacks and the whites immitating them. The infiltration of raunch culture is so deep that even some Generation X'ers are jumping onto the bandwagon.