Hypoism is about a cognitive mechanism existing in all people that is biologically perverted by low activity genetic alleles and result in addictive behaviors. Rape is to sex addiction as skid row and cirrhosis is to alcohol addiction as overdose is to heroin addiction as spousal abuse is to people addiction as racial murder is to xenophobia addiction. All addictions are rooted in instincts and chemical substitutes for the neurotransmitters that reinforce these instincts and only occur in people with genetically programed critically low activity of the cognitive mechanism responsible for regulating the use of these instincts. I do agree with the reviewer that Rape is a misuse of evolutionary psychology and the concept of adaptive behavior. I didn't know she was speaking about spousal and child abuse.
Spousal abuse is a result of people addiction.
Both participants are addicted to each other and as such are equally responsible for the consequences of their addiction. The current incorrect concept of spousal abuse makes one party the perp and the other the innocent victim. She willingly has taken the role of the victim. Any addict would. As long as we see spousal abuse in this incorrect format we will never find relief from this common manifestation of the most common addiction.