An evolutionary theory of human reproduction is proposed, familiar to biologists as the r-K scale of reproductive strategies. At one end of this scale are r-strategies, which emphasize high reproductive rates; at the other end are K-strategies, which emphasize high levels of parental investment. This scale is generally used to compare the life histories of widely disparate species, but here it is used to describe the immensely smaller variations among human races. It is hypothesized that, again on average, Mongoloid people are more K-selected than Caucasoids, who are more K-selected than Negroids. The r-K scale of reproductive strategies is also mapped on to human evolution. Genetic distances indicate that Africans emerged from the ancestral hominid line about 200,000 years ago, with an African/non-African split about 110,000 years ago, and a Caucasoid/Mongoloid split about 41,000 years ago. Such an ordering fits with and explains how and why the variables cluster.

Patriarchy is the structuring of society on the basis of family units, where fathers have primary responsibility for the welfare of, and authority over, their families.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we have news of an interesting obscenity case, long in the making, that reached a conclusion recently when the defendant, Karen Fletcher, agreed to a plea bargain that will keep her confined to her home for the first six months of a five-year probation.

Fletcher, 56, pleaded guilty to violating federal obscenity law based on several stories she wrote for her Web site, “Red Rose Stories,” which depicted the rape, murder and torture of children. According to the Post-Gazette, Fletcher, of Donora, Pa., began writing the stories as “a kind of self-imposed therapy” to help deal with her own sexual abuse, published them on a Web site and charged 29 members a $10-per-month subscription fee. (Click here for the plea agreement, which — be forewarned — contains graphic language.)

“The individuals willing to pay money to subscribe to this Web site clearly have a very strong sexual interest in children — not just a sexual interest, but a violent sexual interest,” said the prosecutor, Stephen Kaufman.

“In my stories, I have created new monsters,” wrote Fletcher in a 2007 affidavit. “[They] rise above the horror of the real life monsters. Somehow, making these monsters so much worse makes me feel better, and makes my life seem more bearable. . . .I may still be afraid of the monsters, but at least in the stories, they prey on someone else, not me.”

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti reportedly told Fletcher that she would have seriously considered a sentence of incarceration had the government not recommended against it. (The sentencing guidelines reportedly called for a range of 27 to 33 months in prison.) “If anyone would have read the story and acted upon it, a little child could have suffered devastation that you would have had to live with for the rest of your life,” Judge Conti said.

Midlothian woman charged in federal child-exploitation case

Tribune staff report October 31, 2008

A Midlothian woman faces federal child-exploitation charges after allegedly bringing a 3-year-old girl in her care to a "sex party" in Indiana where the girl and an 11-year-old Downstate girl were abused, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.

Tabitha D. Robinson, 32, is charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography and conspiracy to transport minors to engage in criminal sexual activity, as are William M. Milligan, 27, of Bloomington, Ind.; and Louise Helen Masulla, 32, of New Athens near East St. Louis. The alleged conduct came to light after an investigation by Alton, Ill., police.

The Family Violence Partnership in Milwaukee, via ad agency Serve, has launched a print campaign to, uh, lift awareness of the crime of statutory rape.

Rahm Emanuel sat on Freddie Mac board during scandal
by Tina Kells

Barack Obama has been called a socialist by some, but if his appointee of choice, Rahm Emanuel, is any indication he has some pretty strong ties to corporate America.

Rahm Emanuel sat on the board of directors of Freddie Mac when the mortgage giant was behaving deceptively, something that was conspicuously missing from the New York Times biography of the new White House Chief of Staff.

Freddie Mac's questionable practices and unscrupulous financial decisions greatly contributed to the mortgage meltdown in the US and contributed to the current global economic crisis.

The fact that Emanuel played any role, let alone one that is so important, in how Freddie Mac conducted its business makes him a curious choice for such a critical White House position.

One of the most important ideas in gender today is the Gender Similarities Hypothesis. This hypothesis was proposed by Janet Shibley Hyde, a professor at UW-Madison. It was originally published in American Psychologist, as a direct contradiction to the more commonly held Gender Differences model. The Differences model argues that male and females are vastly different from one another biologically and psychologically.

Hyde tested the opposite hypothesis, that men and women are actually more similar to each other than different, by analyzing meta-analyses of gender differences. ...

Hyde examined the major meta-analyses that had already been conducted on gender differences. In a sense, she did a meta meta-analysis in order to see what gender differences are true or not. She started out with the hypothesis that most differences between the two sexes are negligent to non-existent. In fact, that is exactly what she found-with a few exceptions. The largest gender differences are in the domain of motor performance (such as throwing velocity and distance). A second area is sexuality, particularly in reported masturbation activity, and attitudes about casual and uncommitted relationships.

Gender differences are strikingly large for incidences of masturbation and for attitudes about sex in a casual, uncommitted relationship.

• Rather than pretending that laws against illegal rape and sexual harassment provide nearly optimal or even adequate protection in themselves, ready access to bimbos in legal and lawful sexual bondage will provide the ultimate outlet for the lusts that would otherwise lead to those crimes. This arrangement will substantially prevent the debasement of female citizens not only through rape but also sexual harassment and pressure for casual sex. It will prevent the debasement of male citizens from the onset of figurative "blue balls" and the associated impulsiveness, poor judgment, susceptibility to ensnarement into webs of sexual usury (dishonest prostitution), etc. It will provide male as well as female citizens an incomparable outlet for their sadistic instincts. For these and other reasons, it will greatly aid in facilitating the State's policy of maximum gender integration in the citizenry.
• Likewise, instead of "abstinence-only" indoctrination, State schools shall feature comprehensive sex education combined with sexual outlets. Girls will be encouraged to abstain from casual sexual intercourse, but out of informed pride in their bodies rather than shame about same. With sexual outlets readily accessible, they will not face unwanted pressure from boys to "put out."
• A key realization of Sovereignism is that "democracy" is an inherently dishonest arrangement. The masses do not rule, but a "democratic" system fools the gullible into thinking that they do. The vote caters to the individual's drive for power, albeit dishonestly. As Sovereignism rejects all forms of dishonest authority, there will be no elections in the Sovereignist State. Instead, the State (with the Syndicate having served as proto-State) shall constitute unified and sovereign national forces with honest authority and hierarchy. So without the illusion of power offered through voting, what will slake the power-thirst of each citizen? For instance, in the Sovereignist State, legalized slave ownership will cater to the same drive honestly, as voting never could, as well as far more intensely than voting ever could.