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It has gotten to a point that, in order to specify the traditional sense of the term rape as "forced sex", it is no longer sufficient to use the term ''rape'', but one needs to call it "rape-rape". But even forced sex is not necessarily rape because many women actually love being forced into sex (as long as the man isn't [[Ugliness|ugly]]). Real rape, in which the man is ugly and in which significant physical harm and/or unwanted impregnation occurs, hence needs to be called "rape-rape-rape". | It has gotten to a point that, in order to specify the traditional sense of the term rape as "forced sex", it is no longer sufficient to use the term ''rape'', but one needs to call it "rape-rape". But even forced sex is not necessarily rape because many women actually love being forced into sex (as long as the man isn't [[Ugliness|ugly]]). Real rape, in which the man is ugly and in which significant physical harm and/or unwanted impregnation occurs, hence needs to be called "rape-rape-rape". | ||
As much as 35% of men admit they would commit rape, if there was no repercussion.<ref>https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1981.tb01075.x</ref> | |||
This suggests rape is an adaptive behavior that evolved because it enabled men to reproduce in the past. | |||
Evolutionary psychology can provide potential explanations for this. | |||
For example, during warfare, which was likely common between ancestral tribes, men of both high and low status could vastly increase their reproductive success by raping the captured women with little fear of reprisal. Men's urge to rape may also have evolved because men have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]]. They do not need to give birth to the offspring nor care for it, hence can increase their reproductive success by impregnating/raping many women. For the same reason, women have evolved a natural disgust of being raped by men with poor genes. But likely women have also evolved to prefer rapists with good genes because the tendency to rape will be passed on and enable high reproductive success in the offspring as well. This may explain why women have secret desires to be raped (by good looking men that is). | |||
==Harassment== | ==Harassment== |