Rape Culture: 3 Reasons Most Men Are to Blame For Misogyny

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Human rape: revising evolutionary perspectives. more
by Melissa Emery Thompson

The role of biology in understanding human rape has been the subject of heated and not always scientific debate.Our study of pervasive sexual aggression in thehuman species can and should be informed by our less emotion-laden analyses of sexual dynamics in closely related species,and warrants objective analysis of scientific predictions within the context of our complex sociocultural environ-ments.In this chapter,I explore hypotheses proposing that some types of hu-man rape function as sexual coercion.Rape by any definition consists of verbalor physical coercion to engage in sexual activity.However,in the context of this book,and from an evolutionary perspective,sexual coercion is more restric-tively viewed as a component of sexual selection.As such, rape is suggested to be a male reproductive strategy—part of a continuum of behaviors,comprising harassment and intimidation,in addition to forced copulation (Clutton-Brock and Parker 1995).Smuts and Smuts (1993) defined sexual coercion as “male use of force,or its threat, to increase the chances that a female will mate with the aggressor or to decrease the chances that she will mate with a rival,at some cost to the female.” There are significant obstacles to a scientific analysis of rape, including discrepancies in subjective assessment and reporting of rapes by victims. Empirically,however,a larger issue concerns categorization of a range of coercive sexual behaviors into the single behavioral category of rape.From a legal and social perspective, this practice is understandable. In terms of evaluating functional hy-potheses,however,the available data suggest that at least two distinct types of rape should be recognized, depending on the preexisting social relationship

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There's all kinds of peer reviewed papers and opinion laden books on this topic. I simply wanted to know if you are spouting an uninformed opinion, or if you've put a little effort into it. It's a serious topic, but an interesting debate.