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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (35474)	4/20/1999 4:45:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sex with a slave is rarely statutory rape -- i.e. no statute against it. That would be a delicacy not to be expected from a slave state. Remember, also, that Abraham took Sarai's servant Hagar to bear his eldest son. A slave had no right to refuse her master's demands. Paul said "servants obey your masters." The idea of resistance is preposterous. But consent was so valued by many men that many bribed the woman to consent, just as the husband who had the absolute right to sex would often bribe the bride or wait until she was willing (especially in child marriage). To impose modern concepts of morality and consent on ancient times and people only confuses the issues. What is important to me is that both women and men have grown to understand the importance of consent rather than duty in sexual relations. Most of what we consider decent emerged from women's struggle for rights, and from men's reluctant but sincere acceptance of those rights. It was not Christianity or Judaism that led to these rights, but the Enlightenment and modern views of ethics and morality.