Biologically speaking most species typically have some form of mating ritual which either the male or female has to perform in order to "court" a mate. In other words earn "consent" by passing a type of test.
Now sometimes a member of the species fails this test and some videos I've seen on the Discovery channel seem to point to that sometimes some animals will completely forgo this process if another mate has been chosen through this process in an attempt to forgo the courting ritual, and thus forgo "consent". Sometimes they fail to succeed in this, sometimes they don't.
So scarily, it seems that "rape" is part of the animal kingdom, and may actually be part of some evolutionary bypass, and if one thinks about it, if this pattern of behavior is in some forms biological, if it is successful that trait of "screw the courtship" is passed on to the next generation.
It's an interesting thought, but just using a domesticated animal(whom have been completely separated from animal society for many years and thus their behavior had probably changed to account for that they hardly have alot of others to choose from so ritual to pick is unnecessary) and establishing that as the pattern of behavior of the entire animal kingdom is a bit of a stretch.
Biologically speaking most species typically have some form of mating ritual which either the male or female has to perform in order to "court" a mate. In other words earn "consent" by passing a type of test.
Now sometimes a member of the species fails this test and some videos I've seen on the Discovery channel seem to point to that sometimes some animals will completely forgo this process if another mate has been chosen through this process in an attempt to forgo the courting ritual, and thus forgo "consent". Sometimes they fail to succeed in this, sometimes they don't.
So scarily, it seems that "rape" is part of the animal kingdom, and may actually be part of some evolutionary bypass, and if one thinks about it, if this pattern of behavior is in some forms biological, if it is successful that trait of "screw the courtship" is passed on to the next generation.
It's an interesting thought, but just using a domesticated animal(whom have been completely separated from animal society for many years and thus their behavior had probably changed to account for that they hardly have alot of others to choose from so ritual to pick is unnecessary) and establishing that as the pattern of behavior of the entire animal kingdom is a bit of a stretch.