Man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man. Scripture consistently and unequivocally asserts this superior place in the hierarchy that man holds - and for good reason; man's active nature is coupled necessarily with such a responsibility, whereas woman's passive nature could be never be associated with this responsibility in the same way.
Mankind has forever acknowledged this truth by analogically calling God a "Father", rather than a "Mother".
Unwin's Sex and Culture documents the sexual norms of 80 cultures throughout the world, and concludes that those most approximating Christian moral standards lead to the greatest prosperity. I don't know how Unwin controlled for other variables, but his conclusion does lend credence to the suggestion that there are natural reasons, pointing to the supernatural, for Christian teachings like no sex before marriage, and how this is so crucial.
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