“It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors [my frat brothers in college], that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

In college, Mr. Akin was a member of Phi Gamma Delta (aka FIJI), a fraternity with a well-documented history of rape tolerance, e.g. here, here, here, here, here, and here.

The genesis of our beliefs lies rooted in the loam of youth. Those roots are tough to cut.