Qualities sought in a spouse by the interested kin in an extended family include work ability, capacity to adapt, procreative power, status, and financial worth.
The rapists are guilty of wrongful procreation, a "deliberate, malicious, and sadistic" use of procreative power with the intent of creating a child who is unlikely to be able to enjoy his or her human rights (317-18).
The seed metaphor reversed the apparent positions of the sexes in regard to procreative power.
The belief that men have procreative power led inevitably to the conclusion that the supreme Creative Power must also be male.
The group's namesake, Priapus himself, was a Greek God of fertility, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, who "personified male procreative power," according to the temple's website.
The group's namesake, Priapus himself, was a Greek god of fertility, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, who "personified male procreative power," according to the Temple's web site.
Today, according to Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury, who is live-blogging the trial, Cott testified that "procreative ability has never been a qualification for marriage".
Until the day that a woman can have a social value that is greater and deeper than merely sexual or procreative, until a woman is more than simple property, until women are fully represented in all the places where power is divvied up, then rape will always be a problem.
Procreative sex for the age of procreation fetish.
