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Scientific Study Concludes: Rape is a Natural Product of Evolution
Scripps Howard News Service - January 11, 2000
Rape is not, typically, the crime of male domination it has been portrayed as by sociologists and feminists in recent years, says a University of New Mexico biology professor.
Instead, UNM's Randy Thornhill and Colorado anthropologist Craig T. Palmer have developed a new theory that rape is a complex sexual crime with strong roots in human evolution.
Moreover, contend Thornhill and Palmer, rape "prevention efforts will founder until they are based on the understanding that rape evolved as a form of male reproductive behavior."
"We have to get real about rape," Thornhill said in a recent interview.
The two scientists co-authored an article titled "Why Men Rape" in the current issue of the journal The Sciences. The journal is published by the New York Academy of Sciences.
Thornhill and Palmer are to expound on their research in an upcoming book, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, scheduled for release in April by MIT Press.
In the article, Thornhill and Palmer take aim at the prevailing societal notion that rape isn't about sex but about male power and is "a symptom of an unhealthy society in which men fear and disrespect women."
Palmer and Thornhill say some sociologists advance a view that, they think, incorrectly assumes that rape is "unnatural behavior that has nothing to do with sex and one that has no corollary in the animal world."
They counter that rape is part of the male mental sexual psyche; was at least part of a successful male reproductive strategy in human evolutionary history; and is strong enough to survive today despite strong social sanctions and legal penalties.
But they do not equate "natural" as good and agree that their public mission is to make rape extinct as a trait in human beings.
In an interview, Palmer said the article aims to convince "those who accept evolution but don't see it as applying to the brain and behavior and particularly the behavior of rape.
"We have to convince them that behavior, including sexual, evolved, just like our morphology and anatomy," he said. "The brain evolved along with the rest of the body."
Palmer said they aren't arguing that men who rape are "genetically predisposed to rape" or that there is a rape gene. Rather, they say that all males appear to be genetically capable of rape, and it is an act which can be triggered by environmental conditions or interactions in life.
The two scientists contend that current thinking about what causes rape is so bankrupt that it ignores the reality that by definition rape requires sexual arousal of the rapist.
Thornhill cites his own study of insects called scorpionflies, in which males are equipped with an appendage used solely to grab a female's forewing and prevent her escape during involuntary mating. The "rape clamp" is used when a male scorpionfly fails to attract a female through the alternative reproduction strategy of offering nuptial gifts, such as a dead insect.
Palmer said the argument actually might get greater acceptance among lay people than in some scientific quarters because people instinctively know that men and women are not just biologically different but think differently, have different sexual agendas or goals and "respond to certain behaviors in different ways."
"These differences are what lie at the basis of rape and what made it a possibility in our evolutionary history," he said.
The scientists say this broke a long tradition of professional journals' sidestepping the issue of rape's evolutionary underpinnings as being politically incorrect.
http://www.anusha.com/rapeevol.htm
Sockorer
03-26-2015, 11:25 PM
This is fucking obvious.
Another "great" scientific discovery of modern western science? :) Waiting for the great discoveries about pedophilia, bestiality, coprophagia, etc.
Merida
03-27-2015, 12:24 AM
What's up with your threads lately? Are you trying to validate your rape fantasies and mistreat of women or something?
What's up with your threads lately? Are you trying to validate your rape fantasies and mistreat of women or something?
This is not a moral validation of rape and I reject all sorts of naturalistic fallacy (natural therefore right). Morality is a non-scientific subject.
Just shedding light on the behavioural biological nature of rape.
poiuytrewq0987
03-27-2015, 12:33 AM
What's up with your threads lately? Are you trying to validate your rape fantasies and mistreat of women or something?
... because they have nothing better to do but to justify misogyny, and that includes rape (duh), after being rejected by so many women.
Merida
03-27-2015, 12:36 AM
This is not a moral validation of rape and I reject all sorts of naturalistic fallacy (natural therefore right). Morality is a non-scientific subject.
Just shedding light on the behavioural biological nature of rape.
I agree. But it's your repetitive focus on rape, beating women, and the belief that women secretely want to be raped , and that 'no' means 'yes' (previous post of yours), that worries me. I hope this thread is in the name of science alone.......
RandoBloom
03-27-2015, 12:38 AM
http://i.imgur.com/AZgSS.gif
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/slapd.gif
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/122296_o.gif
Beautiful.
9/11
I agree. But it's your repetitive focus on rape, beating women, and the belief that women secretely want to be raped , and that 'no' means 'yes' (previous post of yours), that worries me. I hope this thread is in the name of science alone.......
This thread is about science alone, you can sleep well today. :thumbs up
About women having rape fantasies and engaging in token resistance to sex (saying 'no' but meaning 'yes'), this is a common phenomenom and this is endorsed by studies on the subject, nonetheless, this is off-topic.
Marusya
03-27-2015, 12:46 AM
This thread is about science
No, this thread is about your (?) creepy fascinations.
Merida
03-27-2015, 12:46 AM
This thread is about science alone, you can sleep well today. :thumbs up
About women having rape fantasies and engaging in token resistance to sex (saying 'no' but meaning 'yes'), this is a common phenomenom and this is endorsed by studies on the subject, nonetheless, this is off-topic.
It's not really off-topic, since this would be the female counterpart of the male desire to engage in rape.
No, this thread is about your (?) creepy fascinations.
mine (?)
Óttar
03-27-2015, 12:55 AM
Thornhill cites his own study of insects called scorpionflies, in which males are equipped with an appendage used solely to grab a female's forewing and prevent her escape during involuntary mating. The "rape clamp" is used when a male scorpionfly fails to attract a female through the alternative reproduction strategy of offering nuptial gifts, such as a dead insect.
So, the only options are rape or prostitution?
Stanley
03-27-2015, 01:04 AM
Also, you can pretend like you created this thread out of purely scientific interest, but we all know you would never create a thread describing the biological motivation behind theft or murder.
Really, what is it with you and rape? You're either a trolling with this, purposely trying to get a rise out of people; some kind of wannabe rapist; or an actual rapist.
Also, you can pretend like you created this thread out of purely scientific interest, but we all know you would never create a thread describing the biological motivation behind theft or murder.
Really, what is it with you and rape? You're either a trolling with this, purposely trying to get a rise out of people; some kind of wannabe rapist; or an actual rapist.
I think the biological motivation behind theft is pretty obvious, it's a mean to capture resources. Somewhat analogous to murder, to get rid of a potential or actual threat or to conquer what one have by murdering him.
I created a thread about seppuku, am I seppuku practioner or a wannabe seppuku-er?
Rape is interesting as both a social and a biological phenomenom. It's also of my interest to understand deeper the reasons why people think rape is a more delicate subject than murder, this is counter-intuitive at first since you damage someone far more by taking his or her life than by raping the individual.
Stanley
03-27-2015, 01:21 AM
I think the biological motivation behind theft is pretty obvious, it's a mean to capture resources. Somewhat analogous to murder, to get rid of a potential or actual threat or to conquer what one have by murdering him.
I created a thread about seppuku, am I seppuku practioner or a wannabe seppuku-er?
Rape is interesting as both a social and a biological phenomenom. It's also of my interest to understand deeper the reasons why people think rape is a more delicate subject than murder, this is counter-intuitive at first since you damage someone far more by taking his or her life than by raping the individual.
If you created like 200 threads about seppuku, I'd start thinking that, yeah.
No one thinks rape is a worse offense than murder. So you do admit though that rape causes damage?
No one thinks rape is a worse offense than murder. So you do admit though that rape causes damage?
Many people think rape is worse than murder, ask around. In fact, rapists are more socially stigmatized than murderers.
Even many murderers will oppose rape as being wrong and despicable but think murder is often acceptable.
Stanley
03-27-2015, 01:34 AM
Many people think rape is worse than murder, ask around. In fact, rapists are more socially stigmatized than murderers.
Even many murderers will oppose rape as being wrong and despicable but think murder is often acceptable.
http://i.imgur.com/5YovKN3.jpg
Shqipez
03-27-2015, 02:06 AM
It's not a turn on when a woman doesn't wanna do it.
Shqipez
03-27-2015, 02:16 AM
Rape is for dudes who can't get any the other way.
Shqipez
03-27-2015, 02:22 AM
If you created like 200 threads about seppuku, I'd start thinking that, yeah.
No one thinks rape is a worse offense than murder. So you do admit though that rape causes damage?
It depends on what kind of murder, but rape causes psychological damage to the victim, both male and female, to the point where that specific person becomes suicidal or commits suicide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXSn8L6T2g
Grenzland
03-28-2015, 01:10 PM
Well I don't think it's that easy.
Usually the pretty ladies aren't alone, if you harm her her male counterpart wont be happy...
Rape him too.
That's the right attitude.
Linet
03-28-2015, 10:09 PM
I think Also is confusing the fact that women do want to be overpowered by their bf and sometimes be "raped" by him http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/sex/t1530.gif... but thats a whole different story, it has to be your boyfriend and is somethign like a game , no woman wants to be grabbed by an unknown male and be forced to sexual contact :no:.
Even those women who may fantasize "being raped" by an unknown guy, i can tell you for sure that this guy is handsome, strong and awesome http://yoursmiles.org/psmile/strong/p1009.gif, is in love with that woman or about to fall in love http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/melodrama/t5007.gif and couldnt help himself, or something between that....
I think Also is confusing the fact that women do want to be overpowered by their bf and sometimes be "raped" by him http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/sex/t1530.gif... but thats a whole different story, it has to be your boyfriend and is somethign like a game , no woman wants to be grabbed by an unknown male and be forced to sexual contact :no:.
Even those women who may fantasize "being raped" by an unknown guy, i can tell you for sure that this guy is handsome, strong and awesome http://yoursmiles.org/psmile/strong/p1009.gif, is in love with that woman or about to fall in love http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/melodrama/t5007.gif and couldnt help himself, or something between that....
I know babe, that's why a man has to pick and choose who is he going to rape and when.
This 'I couldn't help myself', 'I just couldn't control myself' line is always good.
Linet
03-28-2015, 10:19 PM
I know babe, that's why a man has to pick and choose who is he going to rape and when.
This 'I couldn't help myself', 'I just couldn't control myself' line is always good.
:lol: noooooooooooo...thats not what i meant :icon_biggrin:...and by no , i dont mean yes :no000000:
Linet
03-28-2015, 10:21 PM
Oh, i think i replied to the wrong thread :p....i should reply to the "when rape is ok" thread :chin:
:lol: noooooooooooo...thats not what i meant :icon_biggrin:...and by no , i dont mean yes :no000000:
I'm handsome, strong and awesome. On my ship crossing the Atlantic for you and about to fall in love.
When shall we start the rape?
Linet
03-28-2015, 10:31 PM
I'm handsome, strong and awesome. On my ship crossing the Atlantic for you and about to fall in love.
When shall we start the rape?
That was a good one http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/crazy-monkey/crazy-monkey-emoticon-186.gif?1292792427
....Sorry to disappoint you but I never said that this was my fantasy http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/crazy-monkey/crazy-monkey-emoticon-083.gif?1292792401
That was a good one http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/crazy-monkey/crazy-monkey-emoticon-186.gif?1292792427
....Sorry to disappoint you but I never said that this was my fantasy http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/crazy-monkey/crazy-monkey-emoticon-083.gif?1292792401
Fine. I'll control myself..... for now.
Skjaldemjøden
03-28-2015, 10:37 PM
You went from calling rape Okay to natural. Is this an obsession? And are you progressing or retrogressing?
You went from calling rape Okay to natural. Is this an obsession?
And are you progressing or retrogressing?
Rape is natural, this is objective.
Wheter it is okay or not, or when it is okay or not depending on the situation depends on your subjective moral standards.
King Claus
03-28-2015, 10:42 PM
That the evolution theory and rape/beastiality go hand in hand with each other is nothing new for me.
Skjaldemjøden
03-28-2015, 10:43 PM
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/rape-in-brazil-still-an-invisible-crime/
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/brazil-rape-sexualviolenceipeawomenculture.html
Not that I generally get my news from this agency, but this article seems relevant.
Linet
03-28-2015, 10:43 PM
You went from calling rape Okay to natural. Is this an obsession?
And are you progressing or retrogressing?
At the Dawn of humanity http://r24.imgfast.net/users/2412/13/66/74/smiles/1474486828.png it was natural http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/negative/m0992.gif but in our society and because we have structure, rights and laws is not....
That the evolution theory and rape/beastiality go hand in hand with each other is nothing new for me.
How does bestiality goes hand in hand with the theory of evolution?
King Claus
03-29-2015, 08:12 PM
How does bestiality goes hand in hand with the theory of evolution?
Having sex with lesser creatures, perhaps?
Queen B
03-29-2015, 08:14 PM
We should raise a donation here on apricity and pay a hooker to get him laid.
Having sex with lesser creatures, perhaps?
I'm afraid I don't follow you there. Having sex with animals don't seem to be of any help for reproduction or survival, maybe a side effect of men evolving to become too horny.
We should raise a donation here on apricity and pay a hooker to get him laid.
Thanks. But I only let my friends pay me strippers and hookers.
Atvend
03-29-2015, 08:22 PM
How does bestiality goes hand in hand with the theory of evolution?
Interspecies breeding/hybridization.
Prisoner Of Ice
03-29-2015, 08:25 PM
That's how humans evolve to be brown, totally natural process.
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