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John Derbyshire 'Reading Lolita.'

Posted by Sigma on 2010-July-12 00:44:42 EDT, Monday
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Slightly dated, but interesting.

"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."

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