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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It can't be that simple, surely... if that were the case, then a sterile male raping a woman would be "less serious" than one with a sky high sperm count doing it.
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I don't know the reasons behind it. But honestly, sterile males are not very common. So its majority rules really. The pregnancy thing makes sense to me..its the only way I can make sense of male on female rape being treat as more serious. Besides the common 'guys are always up for it' way of thinking (usually mainly by other guys), but that has no place in law :S
Edited. And maybe because the average bloke could overpower the average woman, whereas its unlikely the other way around. A long with years of repression for females by males (before you start truth, I do not believe this happens now very often, but it can't be denied that it did in the past). Kind of like how racism is taken seriously when its against oppressed groups whereas if someone is 'racist' towards a white person its brushed off.