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From: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.men,soc.women,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Rape a reproductive advantage?
Message-ID: <1897@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 88 19:55:00 GMT
References: <517@gtx.com> <5129@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2201@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <616@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Ritchey Ruff)
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In article <616@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lindsay@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>In article <2201@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang) writes:
>>Forced copulation in humans and ducks are completely different phenomenon.
> [...]
>Monogamy is a reasonable strategy for living and for child raising. Its wide
>presence in both birds and mammals demonstrates that it has a fundamental
>advantage. But, this implies the existence of bachelors, who will not
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>reproduce at all, unless they rape. [...]

There is a logical flaw here - you assume that there are fewer females
then males, but in almost all cases (at least mamailian) there are fewer
males then females.  This implies (using your argument) that the
*females* would be "raping" the males...

--ritchey ruff

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