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...These offenses are not always petty. Some altercations cannot be shrugged off. Divirgilio laments the lack of attention devoted to rape and assault at Harvard: "where I went to college the average statistic was about one out of every four women was assaulted but maybe only three or four of those were reported a year. And we're not talking about prosecution; the woman might admit that she was raped and want to go to the hospital, but not even want to file a report," she says. Rape receives a measure of attention on campus, but officers are not entirely...
...woman, Divirgilio is extremely aware of the terror of rape and the gender balance on the force. She is well-versed in the appropriate means for women to protect themselves from violent assaults. Divirgilio has been with HUPD for about a year and a half; her experience in the Marines, however, most likely prepared her for all she could expect in Cambridge. "My outlook on the situation is generally kind of different than most people. I like working with the men that I work with, there are some difficult times, but that comes with the territory. I mean...
...said the very study Thornhill and Palmer cite states that 29 percent of US rape victims are under...
While some feminists have long fought to place full blame for rape on the rapist's choices, Natural History of Rape implies that this may not be the case because human genes could have evolved to favor the behavior...
...their book, Natural History authors Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer claim that rape may be an adaptation that allows males who would have been unable to find willing sexual partners to reproduce. They argue that the fact that most rape victims are in their reproductive prime suggests that rape is aimed at reproduction...