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The Role of the Freeborn Citizen in Sexual Relationships
In ancient Southwest Asia, freeborn citizen men were at the very top of that social hierarchy. For a man to take a role that might be considered submissive or subordinate within a sexual relationship was considered problematic. And we have ancient Mesopotamian texts that talk about how that renders a man ritually impure for a month. We have a Talmudic text that actually says that that will give a man diarrhea.