(October 19, 2014 at 12:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I think there's a biological function at play here. A woman might ovulate 450 times in her life (12 times a year times 37 years, perhaps long but trying to be fair). A man produces tens of millions of sperm per day.
Further, a woman has to carry the results of a rape pregnancy at least a short time, and in the days before modern health care, she either carried to term, or had an unsupervised abortion. Both options carried serious risks for the woman, and even surviving childbirth, the woman then had a massive drain on her resources without the concomitant of a mate helping to procure food, clothing, and shelter.
I think men write off being sexually used, or violated, because biologically, the penalty is not nearly so heavy for us.
That may well be. But the evolutionary response is visceral whether there is a realistic fear of pregnancy or not.
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