[Jim Noble]

you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Akin meant that a woman is not going to get aroused if she is forcibly raped, making it difficult to become pregnant

If anything is worse than Akin's original idiocy, it's this.

I do not want to post links to rebut the above, so I won't, but they exist and there are lots of them.

Sexual response has voluntary and involuntary aspects - let's leave it at that.

[MD Expat in PA]

you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Akin meant that a woman is not going to get aroused if she is forcibly raped, making it difficult to become pregnant

If anything is worse than Akin's original idiocy, it's this.

Indeed. I wonder if she (Alexander) also thinks that a woman can’t get pregnant if it’s her first time, can’t get pregnant if she’s menstruating, nursing or has sex standing up. (insert facepalm here)