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I give up on this, the writing is just awful to the point of being unreadable for me.

“Of those strategies, three eclipse all others: patriarchal marriage (“the rule of the father”); the double standard of sexual fidelity (loose for husbands, rigid for wives); and confinement at home (“woman’s place”). Men put these tactics in play at the start and keep them in play throughout history.”

Those ancient theologians were absolutely obsessed with sex. Augustine is a hoot. All that original sin stuff--what nonsense.

Read the first chapter with an open Bible (King James Version) open next to me. Veeeery interesting. What the author doesn't mention (at least not in this chap) is that A&E had to eat the forbidden fruit in order to "know" each other. Before that, they were naked, but free of desire. It took being disobedient (BOTH of them) in order to fulfill god's order to be "fruitful & multiply."