Anonymous I once heard that men have "higher sex drives" because, during the days of trying to populate the earth, men had to try to reproduce and impregnate as many women as they could. Women were more selective in choosing their mates because they could only have a limited number of offspring in their lives. Assuming that these are true primal instincts, do you think that they carry through enough today to possibly explain or even excuse (to a certain extent) male sexual aggression?

There were no days of trying to populate the earth, I mean, what?! Were there a committee of apes going like “alright dudes in several thousands years time, we’ll find out that the earth is round. How are we gonna fill it with people?”. There was no grand plan to “populate the earth”, and it certainly doesn’t explain male aggression. I recommend The creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner for more info on how everything started; male sexual aggression started when patriarchy started (of course) about 6000 years ago, because they needed labour as agriculture was introduced. - Pi