scientifically speaking why is rape treated as a worse crime than assault? assault results in direct injury, rape not so. sure it's an unpleasant experience i'm sure but not necessarily life threatening as some injuries from assault are. and also appears that most females want to get raped. but some will go on to say it's worse than death. is it so they wield legal power over males while having something to bitch about and the males bought into their demands wholesale? i'm just trying to think about this logically.