And withhold your essence from women. Don't avoid women, longie, they sense your power; but you must deny them your essence.
There are so many televanelists and faith churches that preach against alcohol. And yet, Jesus turned water into wine (I hope He was partial to pino grigio; zinfandels don't usually agree with me--remind me of infidels).
Darwin did not foresee that his idea would contribute to equal political status for women, but the idea that we all evolved from previous animals made it difficult for men in power to argue that there was a special creation for Eve. Especially, an Eve that was inferior by reason of being secondary in creation. A species with male and female components evolving via natural processes undermined claims that females were 'by nature' somehow different, separate, and morally weaker. Indeed, Darwin forced onto churches the radical notion that if some humans have souls, then all humans must have them, even women, Africans, Asians, American Indians, and "pagans".
This was an expansion from our Constitution. Nobody in Biblical times had the slightest clue as to how human reproduction worked. Science worked this out in the years 1600-1970. First discovery of the sperm in 1603; first discovery of the human ovum in 1823; first understanding that it was not via a "blood-line" but via genetics--nothing to do with blood--Mendel; first understanding that bacterial organisms (not demons or "unclean thoughts") cause many diseases Pasteur, 1870. Watson and Crick gave us a whole new understanding in 1959--and nothing in the Bible ever imagined this new understanding about DNA.
Hey, it's true, that "essence" is worth at least $500 a month for 21 years!