Social contract Quote by Carole Pateman

“Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart”

— Martellis Thurmand

“Women are not party to the original contract through which men transform their natural freedom into the security of civil freedom. Women are the…

— Carole Pateman

“Perhaps the most radical aspect of queer politics was its claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so in such…

— Richard Dunphy

“There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems…

— Susan Shaw

The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects…

— Christopher West

“In Zilboorg’s interpretation of the primal scene, women become sexual and economic slaves in the family. The co-operative socialist William Thompson provided a similar…

— Carole Pateman

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection…

— Allan Bloom

“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways…

— Preston Sprinkle

“Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warm. That's…

— Leonard Cohen

“I now saw union between man and woman was the same as union among the states—as a series of debates and compromises that might…

— Stephanie Dray

“Marriage is the union of male and female and the sharing of life together, involving both divine and human law.”

— Modestinus

“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful careerists in…

— Wendell Berry