Open AccessEVOLVING A CONSENT-BASED SEXUAL ENCOUNTER
Author(s) -
John Okoria Ibhakewanlan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of nusantara studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0127-9319
pISSN - 0127-9386
DOI - 10.24200/jonus.vol2iss2pp107-117
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , context (archaeology) , psychology , social psychology , mating , socialization , gender studies , criminology , sociology , history , ecology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , biology , computer science
Recently, the news media have been saturated with reports of sexual assault of women by men of high social status. In this article, the author examines sexual abuse from an evolutionary and socio-psychological perspective. The piece is based on a desk research (as opposed to a field research). It draws upon evolution as well as literature on human and animal behaviour, so as to re-examine how men may have evolved psychological mechanisms that compel them to sexually dominate women. Of particular concern to the author is the mating game apparently inherited from the lower animals. The article questions the persistence in modern society of such primitive attitude towards sexual relationship between men and women. Finally, it calls for further discussion and research enquiry about the human socialization process as a way of deconstructing the prehistoric mating game. While the issues highlighted in this paper are global in nature, they are pertinent to the Asian context – where there have been widespread reports of sexual abuse against women. It is important for readers in the South East Asian region to be informed of such transnational perspective on this world-wide phenomenon.Keywords: Gender, mating game, rape, sex in animals, sexual abuseCite as: Ibhakewanlan, J.O. (2017). Evolving a consent-based sexual encounter. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 2(2), 107-117.