Male-dominated societies are not more violent, study says

[DavidDvorkin]

Conventional wisdom and scientific arguments have claimed that societies with more men than women, such as China, will become more violent, but a University of California, Davis, study has found that a male-biased sex ratio does not lead to more crime.

Rates of rape, sexual assault and homicide are actually lower in societies with more men than women, the study found. And, evolutionary theories predicting that when males outnumber females, males will compete vigorously for the limited number of mates don't bear out. The study, "Too many men: the violence problem?" is in the April issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/uoc--msa033114.php

[seabeyond]

1. i believe it. i am gonna have to read. and sounds really interesting. and i believe it.

it reinforces what i have read, about the myths of testosterone and male violence. for whatever reason, at least in this nation, we have an interest to keep violence, sexual predator forefront with our males. no matter the facts we gain refuting these myths. it is not in my RL. not with my RL men and boys, and RL has been my example and argument for a long time.

thanks

will be an interesting read. hate to say a whole lot before reading the article.

[GeorgeGist]

2. UC Davis?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. And that refutes the study?

[LuvNewcastle]

3. What they're really talking about here, it seems to me,

is the ratio of heterosexual men to heterosexual women. There are far more strictly gay men than strictly gay women, so by if you did a little sexual orientation census of a group of men and a little bit smaller group of women, and after you took the gay men and lesbians out of the pool, I believe you'd see the ratio of heterosexual men to heterosexual women to be nearly the same.

Now, if the situation is reversed, and there are more women than men, after you remove the gay men and women, because there are more strictly gay men than strictly gay women, I believe that you could still have a situation where there are more heterosexual women than heterosexual men. I don't know how that would work out. Of course, women are just as competitive as men. Maybe more lesbian relationships would evolve, I don't know. It seems to me that there are more bisexual women than bisexual men, so that's a possibility. It does seem, however, that nature has a way of evening things out.

[Squinch]

5. A culture with a higher percentage of men is not necessarily a male dominated culture.