>>26400623
Wasn't going to bite, but fuck it. I'm about to go to bed.
Women were seen as vaginas, because that was what they we're needed for. By western standards it -was- one woman per man. Marriage as a concept was a mutually beneficial trade where in the two would conglomerate their skills to help them both survive and produce enough food to live off of.
In the middle ages women and men did the same work, and they had kids so they would be able to produce more crops. This stayed much the same till the rebirth of the independent city (or 'burg') where the shift truly started and continued till the break of the colonial period, with the death of the serf class (see: White Slavery part II: Whitey's gone Wild) and the new freedom from the feudal system, men were now expected to create an excess of labour for the city/state/whoever collects taxes and fight when wartime came, marriage evolved to become a contract where a woman (in trade for her ability to reproduce) would receive the man's payment from producing said labour for the rest of his life (long after she could not produce more children) because this was a transaction the children were seen as his property.
Less breeding stock, more "I want what you have, and you want what I have, let's trade." or "I want what you have, and you want what my daughter has, let's trade."
I'm going to pass out now so half this is probably not going to make any coherent sense, but I will add in: Fuck orkish bitches, gain dragon's riches.