There is no mention of the possibility that the woman may not enjoy sex with her husband because he had not respected her sexual boundaries before marriage, forcing her to fight him off (in her words) for years. And no mention that perhaps the woman might have felt guilty about having sex because the church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn’t shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay. No. It was the woman’s premarital sexual activity (not even the couple’s premarital sexual activity, though the activity took
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