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Originally Posted by Harry
Are we talking about just being inherit, or being natural (as in supposed to be)?
Anyways, but rape being a biological, natural thing to do (that we have to 'fight'), I agree would make that sickly/genetically weak being pass on its traits. But in order to evolve from certain traits, it takes mating with the most fit. So if all creatures needed to RAPE everyone, it would be counterproductive. Thus, all I am trying to say is that it doesn't make sense to have it be natural for all males to desire to rape females because it would cause spread of genetic anomalies, which is why there's choice and variation in the first place.
It does make sense in the key of 'selfishness' but not in a sense of productiveness. I still do not think sexual desire and rape are the same entity. Rapists have sexual desire but having sexual desire does not make you a rapist.
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What? I don't really understand what you mean. There doesn't have to be one reproductive strategy in a population or species. I can use an example I've used previously with fish. There are some fish species where male and female look very different. In some of these, the males keep harems and then they protect and have sex with the females in that harem. However, some males don't do this .. instead they too look like females and infiltrate the harems. Then they "sneaky f
uck" the females in the harem.
The sneaky f
uckers employ a reproductive strategy that exploits the normal strategy so it wouldn't exist on it's own. Also, if there are too many sneaky fuc
kers, the protective males probably get more vigilant and better at sniffing out the cheaters and sneaky fu
ckers might be competing too much with eachother etc. for it to be efficient. Thus, there should be some kind of ratio between regular harem keepers and sneaky fu
ckers. At any one point in time, a male would on average do better being either a sneaky f
ucker or a harem keeping male depending on how the ratio is. The result is that the sneaky fuc
kers are kept as a minority because that's when the strategy gives a fitness benefit.
If you hypothesize that rape is a biological strategy, it doesn't mean that it's the only strategy or something everyone would do. It could be a response from a minority of the population when they are put in a specific situation, such as not being able to reproduce any other way.