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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). | ||
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'''Positive feedback''': [[Fisherian runaway|Positive-feedback]] in sexual selection may have reinforced this sexual strategy since women have a natural tendency to expose themselves to rapists and copulating with a rapist | '''Positive feedback''': [[Fisherian runaway|Positive-feedback]] in sexual selection may have reinforced this sexual strategy since women have a natural tendency to expose themselves to rapists and copulating with a rapist produces more rapist male offspring. This forms a feedback loop in women's heritable desire to be raped, i.e. there is evolutionary pressure for women to find rapists attractive for the sole reason that other women will find their rapist offspring attractive. Such feedback could be initiated by an initial slight reproductive advantage e.g. due to Bateman's principle as discussed above. Another relation of rape to positive feedback could be that [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selected]] ornament this way makes sexy women a sufficiently desirable vehicle for ones genes (due to the prospect on producing [[sexy sons hypothesis|sexy daughters]]) that it can make up for the risk of facing negative social consequences or even death. As a result, women's rape fantasies may consist in taking pride in being physically attractive enough that a man is willing to take these risks. | ||
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'''Relationship coercion''': Quite diametrical to the notion of Bateman's principle, Smuts (1992) suggested men might also use rape and coercion to force their woman to be faithful and to gain long-term exclusive sexual access to avoid being cuckolded by intimidation. Evidence for this hypothesis is for example that the rapist is often an acquaintance or partner, rather than a stranger or sexually deprived male, and that a sizable portion of women continue relationships with such a partner. | '''Relationship coercion''': Quite diametrical to the notion of Bateman's principle, Smuts (1992) suggested men might also use rape and coercion to force their woman to be faithful and to gain long-term exclusive sexual access to avoid being cuckolded by intimidation. Evidence for this hypothesis is for example that the rapist is often an acquaintance or partner, rather than a stranger or sexually deprived male, and that a sizable portion of women continue relationships with such a partner. | ||