Females were unclean and couldn’t attend service while on menses. The first Jewish-Christians neutered female s*xuality by manufacturing a passive woman who moved seamlessly from virginity to motherhood without the nasty business of s*x in between. Men lived in male-only communities, because for them, women stirred up lust, jealousy and pitted men against each other. To meet the insult and underpin their hero's claim to divinity, the early Christians copied a motif common among the pagans. They gave JC a "virgin birth" a miraculous nativity which "proved" his godliness and gave him a pedigree equal to that of any pagan deity. The new god thus entered the world without the mess and inconvenience of s*x. In the process, the female, formerly the active element in procreation was reduced to that of a passive receptacle, a "mother of god" rather than a goddess in her own right, done to rather than doing.
1 Corinthians 7.1,8. Tells men to deny their s*xual appetites. "It is good for a man NOT to touch a woman ... I say therefore to the unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide even as I." –Purity became identified with s*xual abstinence; chastity replaced charity as the central virtue of the Gospel Religion.
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Excellent and timely analysis. Thank you!