And in the middle ages, supposedly a strongly church influenced period in Europe, the lord of the manor had first night rights. IE, he could deflower the new brides of his serfs, whether they liked it or not. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolute, no matter what the religion.
True; power corrupts — but certainly this was not the will of God and never a tenet of Christianity, as with the rape of slaves in this country and elsewhere. However, there is a difference in that temple prostitution was an institutionalized expectation of the entire pagan "theology".