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===Male submissiveness as "rape prevention"===
===Male submissiveness 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 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.
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 that was carried out by the knight in the "Wife of Bath' Tale" one of Chaucer ''Canterbury Tales''.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#Synopsis</ref>


===Stories===
===Stories===

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