I know that women were (and sometimes still are) given as "wives" and treated like property instead of people, but I was speaking of marriage solely as a voluntary bond between two willing people.



Marriage for "love" is a VERY recent development even in the so called judeo-christian faiths.
And things were easier when women were property...

For the men.

If you had enough cattle you could get any woman ya wanted.   Ah, the good ol' days!  Of course, wealth now means nothing when it comes to getting a specific woman --  Michael Douglas's example be damned.

BTW, god isn't male or female.  There's supposed to be only one (a point that can be argued using the bible itself) so what good are male or female organs to it?  One suspects the ancients referred to god as male simply because the writers were male and nobody wanted women to get uppity.


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