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Beautiful Union, with Joshua Ryan Butler

Mere Fidelity

CHAPTER

The One Flesh Versus the Human

I'm really un persuaded by that. I don't think that it's attached to procreation. For instance, in second Samuel 1622 at all. And when you talk about the KGV, he went in unto her, but the difference between he went in into her and unto her is I think massive grammatically, right? He went in upon her actually like gives her some agency. The fact that she, you know, that it's always a male doing this to a woman says as much about like ancient customs of who initiates sex at the beginning as it does about anatomy.

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