A rape culture is a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.
It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself.
A rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women as the norm.
~ Rape culture is encouraging male sexual aggression.
~ Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent.
~ Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.
~ Rape culture is encouraging men to use the language of rape to establish dominance over one another ("I'll make you my bitch").
~ Rape culture is making rape a ubiquitous part of male-exclusive bonding.