(June 18, 2014 at 6:35 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I've always found this a little hard to believe. If it isn't about sexual desires, why choose that anyway? surely there are more practical means of showing dominance than getting naked.Most societies see sexuality as a deeply personal and deeply private issue. To invade a person on that level can grant a tremendous feeling of power and control to the rapist. Many instances of rape, such as those by popular athletes on campus, are utterly unnecessary if they simply desired sexual satisfaction; the sexual act is just the way of showing how much control and power the rapist has over his victim.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
