There is no apology for rape but it is an evolutionary biological reality. Much actual human procreation has resulted from this act and some degree of rape is probably responsible for the existence of the majority of today’s humans rather than the voluntary mutually agreed copulations that are now favored.
It’s pretty much the default mode of reproduction in the animal world. If you can catch it long enough to mount up, your genes may survive, if not, you are out of luck. Weeds the weaker males, who cannot subdue a female, right out of the gene pool.
In an evolutionary world view there is no basis for condemnation of it either.
Cordially,
I don't deny there may be rape in everybody's family tree if they go back far enough, but "society" is needed for human survival, and "society" does not persist when the mating doesn't make a mate, but makes an enemy instead.
As long as there have been humans, there have been stern codes, conventions and customs --- plus, as far back as we can reach via historic records, commandments --- about whom you may approach for intercourse, and whom you may not.
And generally not only "whom," but where, how, and why.
Violators were considered just that: violators. In many tribes they'd be dealt with by recognized legal avengers: the violated girl's father or brothers or betrothed.
A femme sage with poison. Or a priest with a sword.
As opposed to an outside male lion that comes in and kills the current crop of offspring to bring the female into heat.