Many of the sex regulations are as sexist as they are absurd. The bible declares that menstruating women are unclean,22 but allows polygamy.23 Fathers may sell their daughter into sexual slavery, but only to another Israelite.24 Soldiers may sexually enslave any female virgins after they’ve killed the virgins’ men.25 Men can get away with rape, if they pay the victim’s family 50 shekels and marry the victim.26
