[Guile]

I've been rather busy these past few weeks and failed to reach my monthly quota last months for "people pissed off". So I figured I might as well take care of this month, and retroactively last month, lest I make the bossman any more mad.

All humor aside, mega-trigger thread, be warned.

Let's avoid the evolution debate here, so just bear with me and can we all agree, pretend, or shut-up and agree that evolution happens under current scientific understanding.

Pre-Agriculture

Agriculture wasn't so much discovered as it was made practical. The big hitch to agriculture wasn't how to actually preform it, but how to store it. Agriculture is calories invested for a larger gain in the end, paying out at a single instant in time. That being two seasons invested in farming for a payout of four seasons worth of food. Unfortunately, this is not something that you get over time, but at harvest time, where you get your "payment" in a lump sum. Because of that you need to store it for the next year until harvest season comes around again.

On the other hand, hunting is a short period of work, for a small, immediate, reward, that will be consumed before it could go bad. As a result, hunting served as the primary means for survival for thousands of years, until adequate storage was invented. Because of this the idea of "my" was virtually nonexistent in pre-agrarian societies. Even in more modern times, such as the Native Americans, there was very little ownership (they having had very rudimentary farming). They didn't believe you could own land, and most personal property was no more then one could carry on their back. Compared to the Europeans and such who had a very strong idea of "My, mine, ours", who also had a tradition of agriculture.

All of this comes back to, rape was most likely far less traumatic in pre-agrarian societies, and even early-classical era societies. This being a result of their lack of ownership, not only of property, but the self, and their lack of preconceived ideals of human rights (artificial constructs). The major trauma experienced by victims now, is a result of our artificial notions of ownership, from property, to more specifically, our person, and rights as a person.

Genetic Implications

Human sexual patterns are a result of evolution and genetic factors, society and law are used as a means to equal the playing field and maintain order. Men invest extremely little in reproduction, with nearly three million sperm gametes per ejaculation it's a "theoretical" three million children that one could create (of course in practicality that's an impossibility). Women on the other hand invest a good deal, with only one egg per cycle, and a nine month pregnancy, plus risk of death in childbirth, they want to be far choosier with their mates then men. When a man reproduces he has no physical obligation to the child, as he could impregnate any number of women in a short period of time, and it's in his genetic interest to do so, as it ensures the survival of his genes to the next generation. Why put all your eggs in one basket (or your sperm in one woman ) when you could invest very little in having many women and therefore a likelier chance of continuing your genetic legacy.

Those sexual patterns mentioned before exist because take pedophilia and homosexuality, it's (from a genetic point of view), nonbenificial, you can't reproduce with a child, nor can you with a person of the same gender, so those factors have been bred out to a small segment of the population, as opposed to the men interested in pubescent and upwards girls who were able to reproduce.

Also interesting is that most rapes occur to women of childbearing age (80% being under the age of 30, and 9/10 of victims are women, and only 15% of rapes occurring to prepubescence individuals), even though they would be the most fit to resist. If rape were simply about dominance then it would be odd to choose victims so capable to fighting back. One must also consider the low percentage of violence in most rapes (of forcible rape, 84% didn't involve physical injury), even those that are forced, as for a man, it would be a bad idea to injure the person who would be carrying your genes to term. At the same time, for the woman, it would be best to resist as little as possible, lest she risk injury, and therefore, death. Theoretically then, humans are descended from the men who raped the most, and the women who fought back the least.

Rape is also observable in many species, from humans to primates to hundreds and hundreds of mammals. Rape fantasies are also the most common human fantasy, over half of college aged women have rape fantasies.

The final idea here is, rape is just about sex, and theories of "dominance motive" are simply feminist fallacies.

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