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| Quote (khan @ Nov. 24 2013,17:55) | | They're quoting Barton as the source of all knowledge. |
Ooh-If they're quoting Barton, then....
| Quote | | “In the 1930s, British anthropologist J.D. Unwin studied 86 cultures that stretched across 5,000 years. He found, without exception, when they restricted sex to marriage, they thrived. |
Yep, they're citing Unwin--favorite of nutjob patriarchs.
Unwin on what makes and breaks great societies:
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In my survey of the facts the points I wish to make are that
1. when they began to display great social energy the societies had reduced their sexual opportunity by the adoption of absolute monogamy
2. that in each case the society was dominated by the group which displayed the greatest. relative energy;
3. that as soon as the sexual opportunity of the society, or of a group within the society, was extended, the energy of the society, or of the group within it, decreased and finally disappeared;
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And what is his version of traditional marriage:
| Quote | | When absolute monogamy is the rule, marriage is a means whereby a man secures domestic labour and heirs of his blood. A wife and her children are under the domination of her husband; in the eyes of the law he alone is an entity. The wife is taught to submit to her husband in all things ; it is her duty to serve him and to obey him. No woman may have sexual relations with any other man than with him whom she marries as a virgin. When she is married, she is not permitted to withhold conjugal rights. In an absolutely monogamous society female chastity becomes desirable for its own sake, for after a while the women accept as a point of honour the restraint imposed upon them by their lords. |
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