After commenting with a couple of lady friends that I
was writing this essay, I believe that women can find attractive features
in apes: my friends were surprised to learn that men do not expect them to be
attracted. “Sex is in itself attractive” and some gorillas “look very powerful” −they said. But the possibility of
interspecies sex is not limited to unreliable media reports or friends’
comments, there is also peer-reviewed scientific information on the subject.
The conclusion to this date is that normal women do not have “rape fantasies”
(a misleading term), but that they do have fantasies of being wanted so much by
a powerful male that he is willing to overpower them, imagining an “ultimately
willing surrender” (Meana, 2010).
By using a device that measures genital arousal,
Chivers, Seto and Blanchard (2007) found that women get sexually aroused by
watching explicit and strong sexual activity in non-human primates. This
result, as shocking as it can be to some, should not embarrass anyone. It is
consistent with the evolution of our species, in which women were selected to
favor strong males and to survive forced intercourse (Chivers, Seto and
Blanchard, 2007). Dekkers (1992) thought that all stories of sex with other
species were the product of male minds, not because he had evidence, but
because he imagined it to be so. Ironically it took the minds of female
researchers like Meredith Chivers to show how weak his argument is.
 |
| Source: http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=84458 |
No comments:
Post a Comment