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4th February 2012

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Although the Greek woman of heroic times is more highly respected than she of the civilized period, still she is for her husband only the mother of his legal heirs, his first housekeeper and the superintendent of the female slaves, whom he can and does make his concubines at will.
It is the practice of slavery by the side of monogamy, the existence of young and beautiful female slaves belonging without restriction to their master, which from the very beginning gives to monogamy the specific character of being monogamy for women only, but not for men. And this character remains to this day.
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Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

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