Both sexes had single-sex clubs in the area of that sex’s responsibility. Arc Power, Patriarchy. Dominance, and Sexism Actually Code Words? 65 Female-only clubs All known societies are ruled by men, who control and profit by women’s reproductive capabilities. Encyclopedia of Feminism*7 In most cultures the birthing process was a female-only club. Men were completely […]

Parents — and especially single mothers — sometimes killed female infants but not males. Why not? When starvation threatened, families had more need for boys to plow fields and produce food than for girls to produce more children who would consume more food. If boys were needed for war, the society sometimes disposed of the […]

Did men treat women as property? It is only the understanding that men’s lives were subservient to property that allows us to reconcile women’s combined status as equal to property and on a pedestal. When we hear that men treated women as property, we rarely hear that men were expected to die before their property […]

We often think of countries that require women to wear a veil as keeping women powerless. In Muslim countries, the purdah keeps female beauty hidden, only to be shown to the selected few — who were invariably good providers. This prevented the average man from even looking at the average woman until he promised to […]

Sex In free supply, Tahiti style What happened to sex when there was plenty of food and water and no invaders — so women didn’t need to keep sex in short supply until they found a proteaor? The Tahitians possessed these conditions of abundance from the moment humans sealed there. Tahitian parents aaually taught their […]

As a rule, when women had enough food, water, and shelter so that they could live independently of men without starving, divorce was made legal and considered moral 47 And therefore it was common. This was the case among middle-class Americans since the 1960s, the IKung Bushmen of southern Africa’s Kalahari Desert, the Yoruba of […]

The Christian sanctioning of polygyny takes the form of nuns actually marrying Christ — down to the taking of vows and the wearing of a wedding ring to symbolize the union. The polygynous marriage between Christ and nuns is ideal from the nuns’ perspective because, while Christ assumes the protection of millions of women, the […]

In no country at no period of time, were women safe from… the insistence that their bodies existed only in relation to man, for his pleasure and progeny The Women’s History of the World46 Academic feminism often equates mistresses, concubines, and polygyny* (a man having more than one wife) with male dominance. Once we under­stand […]

Premarital sex and sexual freedom were condemned because the children they led to had no way of being protected. Masturbation, homosexuality, and sodomy (as in anal sex, oral sex, or sex with animals) were also condemned because none of them even led to children. •Scholars who contend the daughters were hopeless sinners do so on […]

Were sexual freedom and premarital sex condemned because they sacri­ficed morality or sacrificed immortality? The Bible contains some astonish­ing answers. . . Was religion concerned with immorality… or… immortality? DAUGHTERS RAPEDRUNK DAD, SAY GOD APPROVES Why would the above "headline" make William Randolph Hears! and Rupert Murdoch blush and yet lead to Lot and his […]