This.
Most people like to LARP because it gives them a feeling of power and an endorphine rush; they always phantasize about scenarios where they could have the opportunity to become the great hero to escape their dull daily routine. Men also like the feeling of being needed and protecting someone/something that they hold dear. It makes sense that phantasies about protecting the integrity of one's daughter are so common because the two things (children, women) where men have protective instincts come together. Furthermore, words are easy and everyone sees themselves as a capable person until they are in a certain situation: Most of the time when there is stuff where people didn't intervene (e.g. first aid, murders in public places) people blame the bystanders, but the truth is that they wouldn't do shit in that situation because of shock/fear, everyone is a hero behind a computer screen because it gives them positive feelings without the true risks and they drop that attitude as soon as they find themselves in such a situation.
Women are seen as angels by most people, most men have extremely protective instincts when it comes to women. Even other criminals like drug lords, gang-bangers, nazis and meth-heads attack sex criminals in prison; even a violent serial killer will get a better treatment there than someone who just grabbed a girl by the ass. Just fucking lol, there is no such thing as rape culture (e.g. everywhere sex criminals are universally despised). Just look at the executions of sex criminals in Iran (like Mohammed Bijeh) or in other places in the Islamic world. Even though they are far more critical of women than western men no sex criminal there has a good time. Rape culture doesn't exist, sex-criminals are treated as scum by everyone - jfl @ feminists who claim otherwise.
Based.