How it is that Occidental Civilization, from the End of the 4th Century A.D., until just these first couple of Decades of the Third Millennium,

Has held to a vicious, perverse, cruel, soul-destroying, wrong and plainly stupid conception of Sexuality in General, and of human Sexuality in particular, is only partially explained by the political necessities of the military and sectarian governance of the late Roman Empire, as it devolved into the Dark Ages and came under the dominance of Germanic and Slavic barbarians, in whose interests it lay to consolidate and formalize the "Natural Psychology" and the World-view--too fragmented and too incoherent quite to call itself a philosophy--of the State Religion of "Christianity."  Like Topsy, it "just growed."  And, like all barbarian belief-systems, it consisted almost entirely of what everybody, already, "knew"--or thought they did: "assumed to be so, without examination, or inquiry," would be a more accurate description of the fundamental tenets of Christianity.

And so it passed, even into the era of the 17th and 18th centuries of Enlightenment, particularly in the broad geographical designation of "Germany," that philosophy and philosophical inquiry were stretched upon the Procrustean bed of the a priori "truths" of what philosophers already believed, either as revealed to them by the "One True" Christian religion, or which they pulled straight from their asses, without need of further analysis, and proclaimed to have been derived from "Categorical Imperatives."  Such, for example, as the comprehensive (mis-)treatment of Sexuality in Emmanuel Kant's Lectures on Ethics delivered in 1785--as ugly, implausible, pernicious, perverse, stupid and entirely worthless a disquisition on this subject as has ever been written (and, apparently, read aloud), but which we are forced, in the modern world, to consider, because it is fundamental to the ugly, implausible, pernicious, perverse, stupid and entirely worthless philosophy of Feminism, as espoused particularly by the utterly negligible, very ugly, quite hysterical, preposterous--and astoundingly influential--Catharine

MacKinnon.  Whose word (God help us all) is law in Canada.