When we quarrel with the way the world is, we find that the world has ways of getting back at us. In other words, however we try, the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. This is of course offensive to all egalitarians, and so our culture has rebelled against the concept of authority and submission in marriage. This means that we have sought to suppress the concepts of authority and submission as they relate to the marriage bed.
Douglas Wilson
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“A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”
RawStory.com on the Official Spokesman of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
Raw Story has effectively distilled Douglas Wilson’s theology into two paragraphs that explain Jamin Wight and Steven Sitler better than anything I’ve ever read. Continue reading