Alicorn comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 September 2012 03:59:04AM 4 points [-]

But with humans in specific, rape is not a great reproductive strategy. The odds of insemination are lower, because things like self-lubrication and uterine peristalsis (which make a big difference) aren't typically going to occur. Even post-coital cuddling increases the odds of fertilization. Getting into comparative primatology, humans have conspicuously large penises compared to our relatives who do tend to use force as a basic approach to getting sex (gorillas, who have a harem-style arrangement as their basic stable social model).

So basically you're saying that Todd Akin's recent comments about rape were correct?

Comment author: Alicorn 08 September 2012 04:08:33AM 3 points [-]

He may have been misunderstanding some of the same information Jandila supplies. But it's not an absolute effect, it's a probabilistic one. I'm more likely to break an egg yolk if I open the egg two feet above my bowl; that doesn't mean it doesn't happen pretty frequently when I open it closer to the bowl (or that it couldn't land intact from two feet up).

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 September 2012 05:33:53AM 1 point [-]

But it's not an absolute effect, it's a probabilistic one.

Agreed. However, Jandila requires it to be an absolute (or almost absolute) effect for the argument against hg00's point to work.