Trusted, Automoderated users
25,837
edits
Female sex favoritism: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Gynocentrism as "rape prevention"
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
===Gynocentrism as "rape prevention"=== | ===Gynocentrism as "rape prevention"=== | ||
Many historians, such as Eric Köhler and Georges Duby suggested the female-sex-favoritism of love outside marriage was designed that way to keep unmarried men from raping. In other words, gynocentrism was seen in the 12th century as preventing the kind of raping and pillaging seen in the the knight in the "Wife of Bath's" tale. | Many historians, such as Eric Köhler and Georges Duby suggested the female-sex-favoritism of love outside marriage was designed that way to keep unmarried men from raping. In other words, gynocentrism was possibly seen in the 12th century as preventing the kind of raping and pillaging seen in the the knight in the "Wife of Bath's" tale. | ||
===Troubadour Poetry=== | ===Troubadour Poetry=== | ||