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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

child support

Child support has become a misleading policy term meaning not love and care for a child, but monetary sex payments legally imposed highly disparately on men. Child support is part of the state regime regulating men’s sexuality and imposing unplanned parenthood (forced fatherhood) on men. Child support laws have generated imprisonment of men, without the benefit of counsel, for sex payment (“child support”) debt. The U.S. Supreme Court case Turner v. Rogers, 387 S. C. 142, 691 S. E. 2d 470 (2011) addressed this sordid state of affairs.

wives predominate in seeking divorce: an unusual medieval case

Wives seek divorce about 2.5 times more frequently than husbands do. A rare medieval poem tells of a husband seeking divorce and his wife’s response. … Read the post wives predominate in seeking divorce: an unusual medieval case

more than six months incarceration for not paying “child support”

In Columbia County Support Collection v. Risley (2016), NY Court of Appeals authorized incarceration for more than 6 months for not paying “child support.” … Read the post more than six months incarceration for not paying “child support”

choice for men would reduce abortion coercion of women

Given that completely criminalizing abortion coercion isn’t feasible, reproductive choice for women necessarily depends on reproductive choice for men. … Read the post choice for men would reduce abortion coercion of women

men’s concern for birth control from Peisistratus to the present

That men don’t caring about birth control is myth. From the ancient Greek Peisistratus to men today, birth control has been urgently important to men. … Read the post men’s concern for birth control from Peisistratus to the present

sophistic Gilote explains medieval satire of family courts

The medieval poems Gilote e Johane and Satire on the Consistory Courts contrast regulation of women’s and men’s sexuality in the Middle Ages. … Read the post sophistic Gilote explains medieval satire of family courts

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