Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Obsessed with policing female sexual behaviour

"He repeated a thing he'd said many times before - that most religions were obsessed with policing female sexual behaviour, that for many it was their entire raison d'être. He described the sexual herding done by male chimpanzees. 'The only difference,' he said, 'is that no chimp has ever claimed he was following God's orders.' "

From 'We are all completley beside ourselves' by Karen Joy Fowler

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