Besides being an easy method of home exchange, wedding ended up being also seen – specially by the church – as a way for managing intimate activity and controlling carnal desire.

Sex and Partners: Wedding, Pleasure and Consummation

For the dark ages, the church really offered females with two choices so that you can escape the “sin of Eve”: to be celibate (the most well-liked choice), or even be moms (Richards, 25-6). Hence the majority of women, when they didn’t decide to be nuns, had been likely to marry and procreate. Continue reading →