In the twelfth-century French tale Richeut, the title character Richeut is a mistress of harlotry. Frustrated with her insufficient earnings from whoring, Richeut plots to get pregnant to extract more money from men. She drinks mandrake and hellebore and has sex with many men. She succeeds in getting pregnant. Richeut then goes to one of …
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Modern gynocentrism teaches that sex is a privilege, but it wasn’t always so. It was once a duty, backed by shame and punishment of men who didn’t measure up for wives.
Douglas Galbi contends that if the science of sexual selection is to advance beyond shallow stereotypes about men and women it must take seriously the work of uncredentialed applied researchers.
Is criminal justice used as a pretext for promoting men’s subordination to women?
You probably understand that construction workers are hard workers. But do you realize that many men are continually engaged in erection labor? Women have no idea how draining men’s natural reproductive functioning can be. Men’s reproductive labor is less visible and less appreciated than women’s reproductive labor. The raucous medieval French text Les Quinze joyes …
In the past men were warned and taught about the possibility of being cuckolded. In the highly developed societies of today, men are disparaged for showing any concern over the possibility.
Douglas Galbi takes on feminism’s sexist definition of honor killings.
Just as it is today, men criticizing women in the ancient world was dangerous. Whether it was the foolish lad Ascalabus criticizing the goddess Demeter for boozing, or the high official Telesphorus criticizing King Lysimachus’s wife Arsinoe for vomiting, the results were the same: disaster for the man. The goddess Demeter threw her drink onto …
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Just because something seems innate doesn’t mean that it is
