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Men and Women (Rome (Men (Brothels seen as better alternative to adultery,…

- - - - "tis well that come down hither, rather than tamper with other men's wives" - Cato (Horace, The Satires)
  - - - Concept of sexual modesty and chastity until marriage
    - - Perfect mix of modesty and sexual suggestion
    - - French Scholar Gaston Bossier observed that "women appear as much engaged in business and as interested in speculations as men"
    - - Could influence men through sexual relationships though
  - - - Hence, in divorce, a woman was unlikely to inherit
  - - - Cato spoke of laws that punished dometsic abuse and allowed women to divorce if abused
- - - - Would spend most of life pregnant due to high infant mortality rate
    - - Belief that women enjoyed sex too much
      - See ''Lysistrata' by Aristophanes
        
        Women are weak minded and crave sex
  - - - Could marry and divorce the women within his Oikos
      - Complete control over women
  - - - Therefore no same gender marriage