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	The vocabulary of love service borrowed some terminology from the vocabulary of feudalism indicative of the ties between a man to his Lord. Examples are ''servitium'' (service), ''dominus'' (denoting the feudal Lord, or Lady), ''homo ligius'' (addressing the Lord's liegeman or 'my man'), ''homage'' (duty toward Lord), and ''honor'' (honoring gestures). The men were sometimes referred to as domnei or donnoi, meaning an attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight to his Lady based in servitude and duty.<ref>Sandra R Alfonsi, ''Masculine Submission in Troubadour Lyric (American University Studies)'', Peter Lang Publishing, 1986</ref>		The vocabulary of love service borrowed some terminology from the vocabulary of feudalism indicative of the ties between a man to his Lord. Examples are ''servitium'' (service), ''dominus'' (denoting the feudal Lord, or Lady), ''homo ligius'' (addressing the Lord's liegeman or 'my man'), ''homage'' (duty toward Lord), and ''honor'' (honoring gestures). The men were sometimes referred to as domnei or donnoi, meaning an attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight to his Lady based in servitude and duty.<ref>Sandra R Alfonsi, ''Masculine Submission in Troubadour Lyric (American University Studies)'', Peter Lang Publishing, 1986</ref>

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−	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.	+	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of [[gynocentric culture]], whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.

	C.S. Lewis referred to the development of this gender relations model as “the feudalisation of love,” making the observation that it has left no corner of our ethics, our imagination, or our daily life untouched. He observed that European society has moved essentially from a social feudalism, involving a contractual arrangement between a feudal lord and his vassal, to a sexual feudalism involving a comparable contract between men and women as symbolized in the act of a man going down on one knee to propose marriage.<ref>C.S. Lewis, 2013, p. 2 The allegory of love, p.2., Cambridge University Press (1936).</ref>		C.S. Lewis referred to the development of this gender relations model as “the feudalisation of love,” making the observation that it has left no corner of our ethics, our imagination, or our daily life untouched. He observed that European society has moved essentially from a social feudalism, involving a contractual arrangement between a feudal lord and his vassal, to a sexual feudalism involving a comparable contract between men and women as symbolized in the act of a man going down on one knee to propose marriage.<ref>C.S. Lewis, 2013, p. 2 The allegory of love, p.2., Cambridge University Press (1936).</ref>

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	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.		'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.
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		+	C.S. Lewis referred to the development of this gender relations model as “the feudalisation of love,” making the observation that it has left no corner of our ethics, our imagination, or our daily life untouched. He observed that European society has moved essentially from a social feudalism, involving a contractual arrangement between a feudal lord and his vassal, to a sexual feudalism involving a comparable contract between men and women as symbolized in the act of a man going down on one knee to propose marriage.<ref>C.S. Lewis, 2013, p. 2 The allegory of love, p.2., Cambridge University Press (1936).</ref>
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 ===In men's rights discourse===
-Peter Wright has expanded on the phrase as relevant to men's human rights discourse, describing the practice of 'sexual feudalism' as rooted in chivalry and courtly love; practices which structured relations between men and women along the lines of a feudal relationship between a Lord and his attending vassals and peasants.<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> Evidence shows that within the emergent medieval practices of romantic chivalry and courtly love, aristocratic women came to be addressed as ''Midons'' (literally 'my lord') by men who acted as both liegemen and humble servants. Over a period of centuries the practice of sexual feudalism, encoded in the conventions of chivalry and romantic love culture, spread initially from aristocratic circles to infuse mass culture,<ref>Peter Wright, The evolution of gynocentrism via romance writings, in Gynocentrism: From Feudalism To The Modern Disney Princess, Academic Century Press (2014).</ref> affecting all class strata.
+Peter Wright has expanded on the phrase as relevant to men's human rights discourse, describing the practice of 'sexual feudalism' as rooted in chivalry and courtly love; practices which structured relations between men and women along the lines of a feudal relationship between a Lord and his attending vassals and peasants.<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> Evidence shows that within the emergent medieval practices of romantic chivalry and courtly love, aristocratic women came to be addressed as ''Midons'' (literally 'my lord') by men who acted as both liegemen and humble servants. Over a period of centuries the practice of sexual feudalism, encoded in the conventions of chivalry and romantic love culture, spread initially from aristocratic circles to infuse mass culture,<ref>Peter Wright, ''The evolution of gynocentrism via romance writings'', in Gynocentrism: From Feudalism To The Modern Disney Princess, Academic Century Press (2014).</ref> affecting all class strata.
 As evidence of the development of this model, Wright<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> has cited the following scholarly sources:

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 ===In men's rights discourse===
-Peter Wright has expanded on the phrase as relevant to men's human rights discourse, describing the practice of 'sexual feudalism' as rooted in chivalry and courtly love; practices which structured relations between men and women along the lines of a feudal relationship between a Lord and his attending vassals and peasants.<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> Evidence shows that within the emergent medieval practices of romantic chivalry and courtly love, aristocratic women came to be addressed as ''Midons'' (literally 'my lord') by men who acted as both liegemen and humble servants. Over a period of centuries the practice of sexual feudalism, encoded in the conventions of chivalry and romantic love culture, spread initially from aristocratic circles to infuse mass culture, affecting all class strata.
+Peter Wright has expanded on the phrase as relevant to men's human rights discourse, describing the practice of 'sexual feudalism' as rooted in chivalry and courtly love; practices which structured relations between men and women along the lines of a feudal relationship between a Lord and his attending vassals and peasants.<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> Evidence shows that within the emergent medieval practices of romantic chivalry and courtly love, aristocratic women came to be addressed as ''Midons'' (literally 'my lord') by men who acted as both liegemen and humble servants. Over a period of centuries the practice of sexual feudalism, encoded in the conventions of chivalry and romantic love culture, spread initially from aristocratic circles to infuse mass culture,<ref>Peter Wright, The evolution of gynocentrism via romance writings, in Gynocentrism: From Feudalism To The Modern Disney Princess, Academic Century Press (2014).</ref> affecting all class strata.
 As evidence of the development of this model, Wright<ref>Peter Wright, ''The Sexual Relations Contract'', published at Gynocentrism And Its Cultural Origins (2013).</ref> has cited the following scholarly sources:

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−	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.	+	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, with vassals being tenants in service to the nobles, and peasants (villeins or serfs) obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.

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−	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model ~~of sexual feudalism~~ is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.	+	'''Sexual feudalism''' refers to the sex-relations model of gynocentric culture, whereby men are expected to serve women who in turn are viewed as men's moral and social superiors. The model is based on the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of their produce.

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