Patriarchy has God on its side. ...by Kate Millet ...Sexual Politics #yqbaba Patriarchy has God on its side. One of its most effective agents of control is the powerfully expeditious character of its doctrines as to the nature and origin of the female and the attribution to her alone of the dangers and evils it imputes to sexuality. The Greek example is interesting here: When it wishes to exalt sexuality it celebrates fertility through the phallus; When it wishes to denigrate sexuality, it cites Pandora. Patriarchal religion and ethics tend to lump the female and sex together as if the while burden of the onus and stigma it attaches to sex were the fault of the female alone. Thereby sex , which is known to be unclean, sinful and debilitating pertains to the female, and the male identity is preserved as a human, rather than a sexual one.
