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To: Nathan Zachary

Lying with one's "neighbor's wife" would be adultery - this is specifically prohibited to both genders. However, there is no way to read the instructions in Leviticus 18 as being anything other than instructions to men specifically, as it is mostly a list of women whom a man is not to take. As this and repetitions thereof are the core of OT sexual morality, it seems perfectly clear to me that it is concerned almost entirely with restraining male sexual activity. A simple understanding of the nature of male sexuality can tell us why this is - because it is the male alone whose natural sexual instincts bid him to be a predator, and thus the male sexuality alone is important to address with these instructions.


146 posted on 04/07/2005 10:08:35 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
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To: thoughtomator

The one instruction in Lev. 18 that does specifically refer to women is a prohibition of bestiality.


175 posted on 04/07/2005 11:58:49 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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