“Couched in superstitious, religious and rationalized terms, behind the subjugation of women’s sexuality lay the inexorable economics of cultural evolution which finally forced men to impose it and women to endure it,” she wrote in The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality. “Generally, men have never accepted strict monogamy except in principle. Women have been forced to accept it.” From the smallest laws to the most sweeping religious doctrines, she argued, cultures everywhere had tried to burn away every last scrap of female sexual freedom. This subjugation was the root of the moral
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