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From: web@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Wendy)
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Subject: Re: Rape a reproductive advantage?
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Date: 11 Jan 88 04:57:58 GMT
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In article <2222@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang) writes:
>
>Humans are the only animals that are always in heat, and during most
>of this time the female is infertile.  That suggests that copulation in
>humans primarily serves another purpose.  That opens up a lot of explanations
>for rape in humans that don't exist with other animals.
>

Bad choice of words. Humans are not always "in heat", anymore than women
are "always recpetive". We are capable of having sex anytime - doesn't
mean we always want to, or always will.
(Talking about men as well as women, here.)




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