Throughout ancient times, especially in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, the male and female sexual organs were continually praised throughout different cultures. Archaeological remains of sculptures and art have shown this praise in all parts of the world. Even the structures or caves were considered symbolic as a sacred portal or a vaginal opening. Large numbers of sculptures and artifacts of the Neolithic period have been interpreted as emphasizing vulvas. It is obvious that these are religiously influenced because the art of this time is mainly concerned with myths and rituals. Another example is, "In ancient Indian religious tradition, the female pubic triangle was viewed as the focus of d

Some of the ideas of male dominance and the end of sexual freedom and sacred pleasure can be traced back to Saint Paul and furthermore with Saint Augustine. This is when the Christian church began to fully back the notion that the female body is corrupt. Augustine's support for this comes from his interpretation of the third chapter of Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve. God said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you" (Genesis 3:16). In Augustine's eyes this made both sex and human body corrupt and was the woman's fault. Furthermore, according to Augustine, "the normal acts of sex and birth are, for all humanity and for all time, the instruments of God's eternal punishment of every woman and man for this 'original sin'" (Eisler 23). The Church eventually backed and accepted Augustine's belief that all humans born on this earth from sexual intercourse are tainted with sin because of Adam and Eve's disobedience. He also believed that because of Eve's sin, there was a complete loss in the holiness of sex, and that women must be controlled by men. After Augustine, it became a Christian duty to procreate without pleasure. Furthermore, the Christian church began to heavily vilify sexual pleasure. For example, the church persecuted possibly millions o

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