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So there was nothing startling about the arguments of Craig T. Palmer and Randy Thornhill (author of a famous study on beauty arguing that throughout world cultures, men and women prize symmetrical features, which correspond to genetic health): Rape, they say, is either a direct reproductive strategy--what men resort to when all else fails--or the byproduct of other reproductive strategies, "such as a strong male sex drive and the male desire to mate with a variety of women."