Rape: Difference between revisions

There exists some evidence that women are more likely to conceive from rape intercourse then consensual intercourse which may be evidence of the adaptiveness of rape.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12110-003-1014-0</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/08/20/study-rape-victims-have-a-higher-pregnancy-rates-than-other-women/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5918e1e478ea</ref> For obvious reasons, this is a very controversial subject to study (with feminists employing the Naturalistic Fallacy to condemn such findings - i.e they argue that if rape is 'natural' then it must be good, ergo researchers into these matters are encouraging rape) and the evidence for this assertion is mixed.

Gottschall& Gottschall, using data from a national telephone survey of violence against women in the United States, found that there was a double (6.4% versus 3.1%) rate of conception from acts of rape vs consensual intercourse.

The researchers controlled for the possible confounding variable of birth control (i.e that the increased conception risk was explained by rape victims being less likely to be on birth control.)