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

No comments:

Featured Post

The birth of RTÉ and Vladimir Putin’s rise to power

  On this date, December 31, 1961 RTÉ was born. And on the same date, this time 1999, on the resignation of Russia’s first president, Prime...