Just science?

Article Abstract:

Thornhill and Thornhill's study is criticized and results are found to be highly unsatisfactory because of at least 3 reasons. First is sexual behavior is inseparable with thoughts about one's partner, with one's sexual views, beliefs, feelings, moral norms and so on. People interpret behavior as acts endowed with meaning. Second, they fail to establish what is the common adapted psychological cause of rape. Lastly, there must be adequate explanation of the complex interaction between mental states and human sexual behaviour. Moreover, rape as research material should be treated with unusual care and scientific sensitivity since it is fraught with moral and ethical issues.

Sex, Sexual behavior, Analysis

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Men: a genetically invariant predisposition to rape?

Article Abstract:

Two aspects of Thornhill and Thornhill's (T and T) study is deemed excellent, namely, the explicit or implicit assumption that male and female sexual adaptations differ and the characterization of rape as an adaptive evolutionary function of our ancestors that may no longer be adaptive presently. Criticisms are given in the way T and T refer to adaptation as 'purposefully designed' without any clarification to its intended meaning. The comparative method is seen as more appropriate than adaptation in providing evidence on human selection. Typological thinking is criticized.

Psychological aspects, Genetic aspects, Rapists

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