For this purpose, as stated by Reay Tannahill, author of Sex in History, “When the shaman donned the garb of a priest in the very earliest days of civilization, the prostitute also found - in the temple - a comfortable niche that she was to …show more content…
For it didn’t take long for this cheap contempt toward females to become programmed into societies and thus the ground work was ripe for the ‘all knowing intellects,’ of the early philosophers of higher learning, like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates to ‘lock in stone’ the majority of women’s destinies for unending centuries.
Various historical leading founders, writers, and philosophers had a tremendous influence concerning how women were treated and pasted it on to cultures to come. Early texts, primarily attest to how an assortment of scholarly writers, such as Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., viewed women as morally, intellectually, and physically inferior to men. He regarded women as the property of men, asserting that women’s position in society was to reproduce and serve men in their household; in other words, proclaiming male authority of women as natural and morally