However, and this came with more modern medical knowledge of the female human body, there is no such verifiable proof as the only verifiable sign can be broken without sex, including through exercise, which actually did lead to some cases where women were accused of not adhering to the abstinence rules of the culture around them. A woman can also become pregnant if semen somehow manages to get into her without penetration as there are sometimes physical holes within that one piece of verifiable evidence that are large enough for something as non-solid as semen, or blood, to pass.I mean, it is more of a social and biological imperative than it is a religious one. Even agnostic and pagan tribes have the same rules. A woman has the comfort of knowing her children are hers. For a man to know his children are his (pre DNA testing anyway), the only sure fire way is to somehow know he is the only man to have slept with the woman. A verifiable seal of "vagina never used" is kind of a great way of setting that standard, then include strict social rules for conduct between women and men and you are as set as you can be without locking the woman in a tower/room/dungeon (other things done throughout history). Vilifying a rational behavior, with historical and logical grounds, as the predilection of religion is wonky.
The bit where it was incorporated into religion is just the establishment of sound procedure as doctrine, easily codified for a large audience and backed by a higher power. It has been treated like some sort of negative or regressive thing, but societies with standards of conduct between sexes are more stable and ironically more happy in relationships. I find it HILARIOUS that almost every society with arranged marriages, even including the caveat of the freedom to annul or divorce, actually still has higher satisfaction percentages (weirdly from both men and women) and lower rates of failure for marriages than a free system.
Not the pet rock, anyone but the pet rock. (Me on the inside: Meh, it was always too hard on me and it look stoned every time I saw it)(Sorry, too good an opportunity for a bad pun)But anyway. NEED public release NAOW Runey. Kali, Lucy, Autumn, Felicity&Emma content, give it. Your cat/dog/child/pet-rock you haven't seen in an hour is totally being held hostage, and is not at all just in a different room. Gimme.
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