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'''Warfare''': During warfare common between ancestral tribes, men of both high and low status could likely vastly increase their [[reproductive success|reproductive success]] by raping the captured women with little fear of reprisal. Some have also proposed that men's tendency to rape during war can be seen as a mechanism that promotes in-group cohesion by having men break a powerful social taboo together.<ref>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/explaining-rape-during-civil-war-crossnational-evidence-19802009/30FC323D6DA7E923547156CC0E947213</ref> | '''Warfare''': During warfare common between ancestral tribes, men of both high and low status could likely vastly increase their [[reproductive success|reproductive success]] by raping the captured women with little fear of reprisal. Some have also proposed that men's tendency to rape during war can be seen as a mechanism that promotes in-group cohesion by having men break a powerful social taboo together.<ref>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/explaining-rape-during-civil-war-crossnational-evidence-19802009/30FC323D6DA7E923547156CC0E947213</ref> | ||
The nearly universal prevalence of rape during the history of human warfare may also have exerted selection pressures that led to women being naturally submissive to violent men and more responsive to male violence or sexual coercion.<ref>https://faculty.washington.edu/hechter/KanazawaPaper.pdf</ref> 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 committed 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 also experience severely truncated reproductive careers, so this is a highly unlikely natural response. | |||
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'''Bateman's principle''': Men's urge to rape may also have evolved because men have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], which was proposed by Donald Symons (1979).<ref>Symons D. 1979. The evolution of human sexuality.</ref> Men do not need to give birth to the offspring nor care for it, hence can increase their reproductive success by impregnating/raping many women and let other people care for the offspring (a socially parasitic reproductive strategy). For this reason, women evolved a natural disgust of being raped by [[beauty|ugly]] men. But women have likely also evolved to prefer healthy and good looking rapists because the tendency to rape will be passed on and enable high reproductive success in the offspring as well. This may explain why most women [[Scientific Blackpill#Personality|have secret desires]] to be raped (by good looking men that is). Women's preference for rape may hence be a co-evolved sexual preference to this (and equally socially parasitic as someone else has got to provide). | '''Bateman's principle''': Men's urge to rape may also have evolved because men have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], which was proposed by Donald Symons (1979).<ref>Symons D. 1979. The evolution of human sexuality.</ref> Men do not need to give birth to the offspring nor care for it, hence can increase their reproductive success by impregnating/raping many women and let other people care for the offspring (a socially parasitic reproductive strategy). For this reason, women evolved a natural disgust of being raped by [[beauty|ugly]] men. But women have likely also evolved to prefer healthy and good looking rapists because the tendency to rape will be passed on and enable high reproductive success in the offspring as well. This may explain why most women [[Scientific Blackpill#Personality|have secret desires]] to be raped (by good looking men that is). Women's preference for rape may hence be a co-evolved sexual preference to this (and equally socially parasitic as someone else has got to provide). | ||