“The men of this tribe,’ the anthropologist had written in that book of Clare’s that she had skimmed one night, ‘the men of this tribe regard the act of sex as the ultimate insult to be inflicted on a woman. Having degraded their wives by using them thus, they hold them thereafter in the greatest contempt.”
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