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In reply to the discussion: We all know men who think they deserve to own women: This is a horrifying exaggeration of that. [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Peninsula somewhere around 6000+ years ago. How much of male aggression is nature and how much is socialization it is difficult to say. But we do know that 80% to 90% of dog attacks are from unneutered male dogs. And as strange as it may sound 80% to 90% of violent human attacks are from the equivalent of unneutered male humans - or in actuality humans between puberty and their early 40's when testosterone production drops significantly. It has been known by science for a long time that when male humans between puberty and their early 40's are either castrated or chemically altered so that their bodies ceases to produce testosterone - the tendency toward aggression and violence falls dramatically. Socialization is of course a factor in male aggression and the establishment of patriarchal male dominated societies - but there does appear to be a major biological factor as well.