The Evolution of Monogamy

At this point patriarchy is fully entrenched women's oppression is built in private property and the division of society into classes is finalized. In Marxist terms we are now in the epoch of slavery one can think of ancient Greece of the era of Homer who authored the Iliad and the Odyssey as a rough approximation of this epoch. Now it's important to stress again that although monogamy was now the primary feature of family life the husband was not confined to it only the woman was. Men could and did have sexual intercourse outside of marriage and there was nothing the woman could do about it it was accepted as natural and normal. Here monogamy there hot erism with its most extreme form prostitution it continues the