feminista: "one unfortunate byproduct of the media flurry greeting this book was some people's insistence that scientists, not 'emotional feminists', were best qualified to make a rebuttal, implying that the study of rape is a 'science' that only objective (read: male) scientists can understand. This is baloney." – a review of randy thornhill and craig palmer "a natural history of rape: biological bases of sexual coercion".

wired: "'i read his book. if i thought he was defending rape, i would never have invited him to speak,' [ars electronica director gerfried] stocker said" – i read her lips. if i thought she was dismissing sex, i would never have invited her to come.