[card_zero]

There is however a suggestion here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Interbreeding

> According to Svante Pääbo, it is not clear that modern humans were socially dominant over Neanderthals, which may explain why the interbreeding occurred primarily between Neanderthal males and modern human females.

Unless read as suggesting "Neanderthal males were hugely charismatic"?

[dismalaf]

In current-day interracial dating dynamics there are preferred race and gender combos and this is shown through lots of statistics.

The answer isn't necessarily rape...

[pegasus]

...or "Neanderthal males were huge, thus charismatic" :)