Wilson and Daly believe that a study of human society reveals a mindset whose manifestations are diverse in detail but “monotonously alike in the abstract.” They are “socially recognized marriage, the concept of adultery as a property violation, the valuation of female chastity, the equation of ‘protection’ of women with protection from sexual contact, and the special potency of infidelity as a provocation to violence.” In short, in every age and in every place, men behave as if they owned their wives’ vaginas.
