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Augustine of Hippo

“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women.”

Augustine of Hippo, Sermons 1-19 (Vol. III/1)
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Sermons 1-19 (Vol. III/1) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) Sermons 1-19 (Vol. III/1) by Augustine of Hippo
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