MIT Press can barely keep it in stock. And one of the authors appeared on the Today show plugging the book. For decades, evolutionary psychology has been the butt of most high-brow scientific jokes. People scoff because its explanations are too elementary, as if a culture's mating practices are predictable. Thornhill and Parker assert that where sexuality and reproduction are concerned, men are the aggressors for the rewards of prestige.
Women just have to lie back and take it.
It is a woman's job to populate the world, not her choice. Read as comedy, A Natural History of Rape is somewhat bearable. Skip to the section on female sexual arousal. Any man who's been left sleeping alone in the morning while the woman hightails it out of his apartment disproves that. The chapter finishes with a revealing passage about sexual competition among men.