The Wife Doesn't Have Authority Over His Own Body, but the Wives Do

In contrast to the greater culture around the roman empire, christianity was very non patriarchal and was elevating women in ways that they had not been elevated anywhere at, really, any other time. So there's an equality here to paul's argument that, you know, since you both have ownership over each other's bodies,. You are giving to one another when you choose to give to each other in a sexual way. And so he says, verse five, do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, but then come together again.