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Comment author: beoShaffer 08 September 2012 09:58:04PM 5 points [-]

As someone with almost no vested interest in the conversation I'm not going to do the (rather extensive) work it would take to provide a good summary of the science of rape, however I find it odd that this conversation seems to be completely ignoring that fact that it is a heavily researched area, particularly by evolutionary psychologists. As a representative example this experiment suggests a link between status manipulations and additudes towards rape, and the evo-psyc journal it's in has 50+ other articles that mention rape, even though its less than ten years old.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 September 2012 10:41:31PM 2 points [-]

Is there any way to check on whether those sorts of simulations are a good model for attitudes which haven't been affected by experimenters?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 10:16:00PM -2 points [-]

I'm aware of the evo psych research into the subject of rape. I disagree with it, but I'm aware of it, I've read some fair portion of it, and I think that the idea that rape is a behavioral adaptation driving a reproductive strategy is flawed.