While men were also made into objects of ownership and trade, as slaves, in general women were much more likely to be treated as commodities in non-slave-owning systems. Once a woman had given her initial consent to the marriage “contract,” she had no right to retract her consent to sexual relations – ever.
当然，女人的身体被用来销售从汽车到流行音乐的所有东西。但是，从雅典之后的法律体系开始，女性的身体组织就被以很深刻的方式物化和商品化了。虽然，男人也曾被作为奴隶成为所有权和买卖的对象，但是，大体上，即使在不存在奴隶制的社会里，女人也更可能被看作是商品。一旦女人已经同意了最初的婚姻“合同”，她就没有权利从性关系中收回其同意——从来都是如此。