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Essay / A conflict perspective on religion and sexuality
105). There is a single deity, a male, who is the head of the religion. Women are assumed to have secondary status because they are less important than men. In “old” religions, women are made to look like temptresses and vixens, and all they want is for men to give them everything they want. In these religions, however, men believe that women are their property and that they belong to them.