Excerpt: ...there is no question that rape seriously impairs a woman's reproductive interests. To say that rape pregnancies are costly to a woman's genetic suc

Excerpt: ...there is no question that rape seriously impairs a woman's reproductive interests. To say that rape pregnancies are costly to a woman's genetic success would be an enormous understatement. Not only do such conceptions completely undermine the female's mate selection—and so the quality of her offsprings' genes—but rapists are unlikely to stick around and help raise children, putting such children at a significant disadvantage. In short, it's a catastrophic mess from the vantage point of the mother's genes. List from the article (article elaborates on each point): 1. When threatened by sexual assault, ovulating women display a measurable increase in physical strength. 2. Ovulating women overestimate strange males' probability of being rapists. 3. Ovulating women play it safe by avoiding situations that place them at increased risk of being raped. 4. Women become more racist when they're ovulating.