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Transactions and Covenants Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Dear Darla, one of the hurdles that

modern young women have to get over with regard to thinking about marriage is the apparent

transactional appearance of it.

There's that surface appearance to begin with, and the plausibility of the charges leveled

against it by the feminists have steeped in the backs of more than a few minds.

That charge is that the patriarchy is simply a highly organized prostitution ring.

Now the first part of this letter is not going to seem like relationship advice at all,

but I trust that by the end of it, it should come into focus a bit more.

Back in the day, so does thought, the village chief would buy a bride for his son and

the bride price was three chickens and a cow.

The facile assumption is then made that a dowry is simply a financial price that must

be paid in order for the chief son to have access to sex.

And how is that not prostitution?

I trust that you see that the subject is a complicated one, and I trust that you also

feel it can be emotionally charged.

Time honored custom such as the father of the bride, walking his daughter down the aisle

and quote unquote giving her away, are thought by more traditional Christians to be sweet

and all, and everybody in our circle still does it.

But how do we answer the hard feminist challenge that there was no quote unquote giving at

all?

There was a fee, marriage is just decorated prostitution, but let me be careful.

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