Karomesis (and everyone!) will find this article by eclectic and eccentric “biocon” pundit John Derbyshire of interest. Slightly dated, but interesting indeed.

Reasoning that a rapist is inspired to his passion mainly by the physical attractiveness of his victim, [biologist] Razib [Khan] went for rape statistics. He found a 1992 report (Rape in America: A Report to the Nation) from the National Victim Center showing the age distribution of female rape victims. Sixty percent of the women who reported having been raped were aged 17 or less, divided about equally between women aged 11 to 17 (32 percent) and those under eleven (29 percent). Only six percent were older than 29. When a woman gets past her mid twenties, in fact, her probability of being raped drops off like a continental shelf. If you histogram the figures, you get a peak around ages 12-14… which is precisely the age Lolita was at the time of her affair with Humbert Humbert.

I’m not big on hard and fast AoAs but these age ranges remind me of what I see in my mind’s eye when I picture the Ultimate Sex Harem.

As I’ve said before, I tend to look at Expert Opinion™ with a skeptical eye and strongly value thinking for myself. I don’t suddenly suspend my sense of skepticism when it comes to Experts™ who make their pronouncements in the name of science. At the same time, I strive to read scientific research and theory with an open mind.

Ironically though, one would never have to read even a single Evo Psych paper to notice that rape is about power, not sex is an idiotic false dichotomy –  or observe that rapists will most often pick young and pretty prey when able to do so!