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or male orangutans that lack sexual dimorphism frequently use their increased mobility compared to heavier and fully developed "flanged" male orangutans to rape orangutan females.<ref>https://cherylknott.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/knott-2009-chapter-4-sexual-coercion-in-orangutans.pdf</ref> Although typically solitary apes, female orangutans often seek to form transitory pair-bonds with imposing males to protect themselves from rapist male orangutans.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/4602112</ref> Similar behavioral mechanisms are argued to be salient in regards to female humans mate preferences, there being evidence some women seek dominant and physically imposing males in order to protect themselves from male sexual violence.<ref>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_21</ref> | or male orangutans that lack sexual dimorphism frequently use their increased mobility compared to heavier and fully developed "flanged" male orangutans to rape orangutan females.<ref>https://cherylknott.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/knott-2009-chapter-4-sexual-coercion-in-orangutans.pdf</ref> Although typically solitary apes, female orangutans often seek to form transitory pair-bonds with imposing males to protect themselves from rapist male orangutans.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/4602112</ref> Similar behavioral mechanisms are argued to be salient in regards to female humans mate preferences, there being evidence some women seek dominant and physically imposing males in order to protect themselves from male sexual violence.<ref>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_21</ref> | ||
Some have also argued that the nearly universal prevalence of rape during the history of human warfare exerted selection pressures that led to women being naturally submissive to violent men and more responsive to male violence or sexual coercion. It is argued that women who resisted rape when their group was overrun by another would have been at a greater risk of being killed, resulting in these women's more assertive genes being purged. | Some have also argued that the nearly universal prevalence of rape during the history of human warfare exerted selection pressures that led to women being naturally submissive to violent men and more responsive to male violence or sexual coercion. It is argued that women who resisted rape when their group was overrun by another would have been at a greater risk of being killed, resulting in these women's more assertive genes being purged. Those women who commuted suicide out of shame in response to being raped (like the Roman noblewoman Lucretia, whose rape led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy and the advent of the republic) would obviously experience severely truncated reproductive careers. | ||
==The evolutionary psychology behind rape== | ==The evolutionary psychology behind rape== | ||