hey could not be trusted and were a moral danger to men. Such religious teaching led men both to worship and also to look down on women and also led women to give in to men's authority. Apart from the religious matter, we have the fact of macho attitudes being women considered secondary to men and inferior.
             Thus, taking into account the inequality of roles existing in this period I have- like many others for sure - wondered, whether medieval women really enjoyed sex. After doing some research I have found out that the answer could be yes or no. Considering the physiological structures for attaining sexual pleasure, anthropologists and medical doctors have recognized that medieval women were physically capable of enjoying sex, unless, of course, they were subject to the mutilation of the female organs. But this was never a practice in Western Europe. However, they also recognized that there were physical impediments to this enjoyment. Certain conditions could have interfered with their sexual pleasure: chronic ill health, dirt ,a poor diet and heavy labour. There were also social and psychological barriers to sexual pleasure, specially for women. During the Middle Ages the society and culture denied its value and validity. Then, many women might have we'll be inhibited from accepting their own sexuality. The Catholic Church, a very powerful cultural arbiter of the day, was deeply suspicious of sexuality in general and female sexuality in particular. The clergy preached that sex should only occur for the purposes of procreation, not for pleasure - As I see it, the Catholic church still sustains this point of view and sometimes, specially supported by certain priests, it is overtly stated in services. Chastity was one of the seven cardinal virtues, and lust one of the seven deadly sins. In their role as confessors, priests questioned husband and wife about their sexual practices and placed limits on when relations were appropriate...