Thinking about it, I don't find it very strange that people in some small-scale societies have never heard of violent rape. The only reason why I know about the kind of rape based on violence or threats if violence is mass media. Without mass media, I also wouldn't have heard of a man breaking a single hair on the head of a woman in orde…
Thinking about it, I don't find it very strange that people in some small-scale societies have never heard of violent rape. The only reason why I know about the kind of rape based on violence or threats if violence is mass media. Without mass media, I also wouldn't have heard of a man breaking a single hair on the head of a woman in order to obtain sex. From friends and acquaintances and acquaintances to acquaintances I have heard of numerous cases of sexual coercion. But none of those cases built on violence or explicit intimidation.
Fortunately rape by the threat of violence is so rare that it is newsworthy, and I think you are right that a small scale society may not see any incidents at all, and as such not know about violent rape.
It does seem like their society also has strong taboos against coercion. In the paper she addresses this:
> The idea of having sex with someone who does not need you to have sex with them - and so the idea of coercing someone into sex - is thus almost unthinkable to Gerai people.
This seems to align with a lot of hunter-gatherer tribes that are fiercely egalitarian. In egalitarian societies, trying to make others do something they don't want to do, is seen as a big no-no. Something that especially reflects in their approach to child-rearing (I can again recommend "Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods", by Hewlett/Lamb).
Thinking about it, I don't find it very strange that people in some small-scale societies have never heard of violent rape. The only reason why I know about the kind of rape based on violence or threats if violence is mass media. Without mass media, I also wouldn't have heard of a man breaking a single hair on the head of a woman in order to obtain sex. From friends and acquaintances and acquaintances to acquaintances I have heard of numerous cases of sexual coercion. But none of those cases built on violence or explicit intimidation.
Fortunately rape by the threat of violence is so rare that it is newsworthy, and I think you are right that a small scale society may not see any incidents at all, and as such not know about violent rape.
It does seem like their society also has strong taboos against coercion. In the paper she addresses this:
> The idea of having sex with someone who does not need you to have sex with them - and so the idea of coercing someone into sex - is thus almost unthinkable to Gerai people.
This seems to align with a lot of hunter-gatherer tribes that are fiercely egalitarian. In egalitarian societies, trying to make others do something they don't want to do, is seen as a big no-no. Something that especially reflects in their approach to child-rearing (I can again recommend "Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods", by Hewlett/Lamb).