83:2.2 [[Coercion]], not [[attraction]], was the approach to [[primitive]] marriage. In early times [[woman]] had no [[sex]] aloofness, only sex inferiority as inculcated by the [[mores]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft raiding] preceded [[trading]], so marriage by capture preceded marriage by [[contract]]. Some [[women]] would connive at capture in order to [[escape]] the [[domination]] of the older men of their [[tribe]]; they preferred to fall into the hands of men of their own age from another [[tribe]]. This pseudo [[elopement]] was the [[transition]] [[stage]] between capture by [[force]] and subsequent [[courtship]] by [[charming]]. | 83:2.2 [[Coercion]], not [[attraction]], was the approach to [[primitive]] marriage. In early times [[woman]] had no [[sex]] aloofness, only sex inferiority as inculcated by the [[mores]]. As [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft raiding] preceded [[trading]], so marriage by capture preceded marriage by [[contract]]. Some [[women]] would connive at capture in order to [[escape]] the [[domination]] of the older men of their [[tribe]]; they preferred to fall into the hands of men of their own age from another [[tribe]]. This pseudo [[elopement]] was the [[transition]] [[stage]] between capture by [[force]] and subsequent [[courtship]] by [[charming]]. |