 She is the source of extra-institutional sex.Therefore, she is seen as a threat to patriarchy and the family structure it supports.Over time, the term ""zonah"" came to applied to a married woman who committed adultery, and that sense of the term was used as a metaphor for people being unfaithful to Yahweh, especially in the Book of Hosea and the Book of Ezekiel; the descriptions of sexual acts and punishments of the metaphorical "zonah" in those books are brutal and pornographic.