Rubens and rape

Why is rape ever a subject of art? Does "abduction" of women in ancient Greek myths make it any better? What was Peter Paul Rubens thinking here with Castor and Pollux Abduct the Daughters of Leukyppos, alternatively known as The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1617-1618), shown below. (His copy of Titian's The Abduction of Europa shown above, and Rembrandt's version are much tamer.)

Why are so many art critics tone deaf on this subject?

The sequel to this painting: the sisters' fiancés, Idas and Lynceus track down the obsessed kidnappers to retrieve their women and they manage to kill Lynceus. Idas then kills Castor, before he is killed by Pollux, or maybe Zeus does this with a thunderbolt.

Very few art critics (feminists aside) seem willing to address the 17th century context here of sexual violence - the abduction and rape of women by men. But with Rubens, the violence could apply to men too. Below is his The Abduction of Ganymede (1636-1638), also in the Prado. Does it get any more phallic than this? Zeus is doing the abducting here (again), as an eagle carrying Ganymede away to Olympus. Michelangelo and Rembrandt also tackled the subject.