@Samantha: thanks for the link. I agree that the bonobo culture of everyone having sex with everyone is disgusting from a human point of view. It should be said that the females leave the group and join unrelated groups to engage with the new groups’ dominant females and to reproduce with their sons who remain with their mothers their entire lives.
Because of interbreeding that stopped only recently relative to the entire homo history (human evolution), all three, bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans not only stem from the same ancestor, but we also are directly related, and technically, to some extent, the two are our ancestors. Because of this it is possible that we evolved with a similar division between a matriarchal/matrilineal/matrilocal culture and a patriarchal/patrilineal/patrilocal one.
This in turn may provide a DNA/RNA based explanation as to why some people cherish and respect or even worship nature and mothers/women as the ultimate source of life (the female principle of life creation), while others feel that nature, women, and the women’s product (children, people) should be exploited, which brings us back to the thread subject of rape.
It is possible that initially our homo ancestors shared the same culture as, let’s say (due to the australopithecus similarity) the bonobo with everyone engaging in sexual activity with one another. Then as at some point in the evolutionary brain development the kids may have started to fight off the older members (old would have been age 20 to 30 or 40), and possibly injuring or even killing the elders. This in turn may at least to a part explain the fact that independent of culture or time in prehistory/history human leadership consists of elders, who may have turned the tables on the young through various processes of ‘taming’, ‘disciplining’, ‘teaching respect’, maiming, etc.
As we know over time cultures around the world submitted, more often than not unwillingly, to patriarchal ideology, which in turn is a way for male elders to get laid long after their prime reproductive years which still end in their early 20′s (sperm count and quality).
Proof of this connection is plenty. Pedophilia, another form of rape, is far more common than reported, and extends way beyond the few arrests of civilians and the Christian clergy. Just like a large percentage of men admits to having a desire to dominate a woman, many wouldn’t mind if the victim was a teenager regardless of whether they themselves are 20 or 90 years old.
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