The Early Church fathers produced a body of literature that concern virginity, marriage in women in order to justify and legitimize the patriarchal system of the time. According to these texts written by the church fathers, women can only become close to god through their virginity and/or martyrdom. Virginity and martyrdom was even preferred over marriage by the church fathers and even some of the women refused to be married. Hence the social construct that is created by this, is that the marriage, sex and the female body is evil and sinful and giving up not only their possessions, but their body and life actually has them married to Christ and hence they can be released and freed from a misogynistic
