Of course, and the inference, by some posting here, that we are talking an all or never thing, in reference to that physiology, is embarrassingly juvenile.
I assumed Akin was referring to a ratio.
Too many politicians think that stuff works ~ yet today hundreds of millions of Americans have an intellectual prosthetic at hand ~ called access to the internet.
Their best bet is to simply not speak where they don't really know, or where they only have one reference.
I never put anything on the net that I can't back up with more than one source ~ Rush sits there with a FACT CHECKER on line ~ and I think in the early days he used to do his own lookups while on the air.
The only question for the vast overwhelming majority of women is likely to be about RISK TO THEMSELVES. They could get pregnant, and even if rare, do you imagine your typical friendly neighborhood rapist cares much for hygiene? Then, there's the murders, cuttings, maimings, beatings, tossings down stairs, tossings up against the wall, throwings out windows, being left naked in the snow, or tossed in a river ~ the whole violence schtick where the rapist tries a coverup.
If you want to talk RTL that's an issue. If you want to talk RAPE, that's a different issue ~ to your audience if not yourself.
Slick politicians know how to focus their messages for maximum positive impact.
Akins outslicked himself.