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Daily Poll: Should Fathers Take Charge of the Daughters' Sexuality?

By , About.com GuideJune 27, 2006

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Religious conservatives are making a strong push to place fathers in charge of their daughters' sexuality and 'sexual purity.' It used to be the case, obviously, that men basically owned their children and controlled daughters' sexuality, but that changed as women gained the right to act as autonomous human beings. So, religious conservatives want to roll that back.

 

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Why don’t these men ever take charge of their sons by taking them to purity camp and having them promise to remain ‘pure’ until they’re married?

This seems to be just another way for the religious to not only shame women, but to dehumanize men also. For example, the growing “it” thing in these parts is manly men churches.

Men can’t help themselves – they’re ‘wild at heart’ and if it wasn’t for us ‘ladies’ keeping a tight reign on them (a blessing and a curse), why it’s no telling what they’d do (kill or screw everything in sight being the implication).

June 27, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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