by Kenneth Maxwell 1996. The Sex Wars https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-3462-8_5 In ancient Rome there were several categories of marriage having different and confusing legal status. Divorce was easy, often with no more formality than the husband’s declaration that the marriage was ended. The system encouraged promiscuity, and because of the uncertainty of fatherhood, the practice was to […]

by Raine Eisler. It is remarkable, that given the fact that much of the bible is based on Canaanite and Mesopotamian myths, that the female divine is absent. Even though the goddess was very important to the Hebrews until the destruction of the second temple.

by Riane Eisler. “a woman who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male-dominated society.”

By P.C.Remondino, M.D. – Philadelphia 1891. Jahn, in speaking of the people by whom the early Hebrews were surrounded, mentions their idolatrous practices, and that their peculiar forms of Pagan worship were accompanied by indulgence in fornication, lascivious songs, and unnatural lust. Others of their neighbors worshiped the “hairy he-goat,” with which they also practiced […]