“[...] However, even in the early years of their marriage, when she was about 30 years old, Margery records how she told her husband she no longer wanted to have sex with him; indeed, that Jesus himself had told her not to. [...]”
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
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