Rape was not looked down upon; it was a symbolism to show a warrior's masculine violence and violation1. ... Men slept with other women and got them pregnant but the child was not considered to be legitimate unless it was under wed lock. ... Men were praised for raping women but were not supposed to have children outside of wedlock for the fear that their child would be born with deformities. ... Allowing Spartans to rape women as a symbol for their masculine violence and violation is also contradicting because they have a chance of producing a child outside of wedlock, and also because t...

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This is written to be one of the more sexual scenes in the novel, thus crossing the boundaries of incest and representing a new wave of morality in society, "Her lips quivered, and her mouth locked to me and the pain whipped through me suddenly encircling my heart."" (175). ... This is notably concurrent to developing cultures' attitudes to rape. In earlier centuries, women who had been raped were often punished harshly for having behaved immorally'. ...

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Then, practicing abstinence is the preeminent solution which helps couples to avoid permanent consequences including child-bearing out of wed-lock, sexual transmitted diseases and promiscuity (Greenhalgh, 2008). ...

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Crime and Punishment: Getting Off "The Hook" Repercussions for one's own actions are a common theme throughout literature. Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. Numerous philosophers have advocated that the future of the human race does not lie in outside of mankind's grasp in the hands of some obscure deity, but in the willingness of people to change their behavior and be accountable for their inad...

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