Why A Hindu Temple Is Not Like A Soho Phone Booth

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1. This guy's expertise is Clinical Biochemistry.

2. I suppose this guy is using some kind of a 'scientific' definition of despotism.

3. He quotes some Caneiro dude who talks about 10,000 years ago and then immediately quotes Genesis 47. Was bible written 10K years ago ? Weird logic.

4. The there is quote from Betzig person about "Africa, Asia or America" (no europe).

5. Then there is the genetics quote..

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Consequently, DNA testing has confirmed that upper- caste females in India are genetically indistinguishable from lower-caste females, because pretty hoi polloi girls have always been imported into the palaces. But the upper-caste males of India — who are the descendants of the Aryan conquerors of 5,000 years ago — have never allowed male proles to marry their daughters, and they remain genetically distinct. They have, therefore, retained the spoils of conquest for themselves and their sons.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

If the girls indistinguishable then it can it not mean that palace girls also married non-palace boys ? How did he come up with this ? This area is this guy's expertise (supposedly) so he must know what he is talking about. But I dont understand this. If females are indistinguishable then how come the deduction that pretty hoi-polloi girls were imported into palaces ? And moreover how does it mean that aryan conquerors didnt allow their daughters to marry male proles ?

6. where did this come from ? <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Traditional empires, being despotic, restricted trade to the palaces and temples, forbidding hoi polloi from trading or travelling.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

7. and then the conclusion ?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And one lucrative trade that the priests and princes often monopolised was the oldest and most despotic of all, prostitution.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Did anybody see it coming ? I didnt.

8. Some more conclusions.. How come it is 'doubtless' ???? <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Doubtless the girls were seduced by a theology of mysticism, just as the widows who, as suttees, threw themselves on their dead husbands’ funeral pyres believed they were attaining spiritual purity, but the sexual economics of female exploitation provide a candid explanation of what was happening.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

9. One more.. From 10000 years ago he has now jumped to a millenium.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In short, a millennium ago the temples of India were brothels — they may have been more than that, but they were brothels too — and they advertised their wares as brothels always have.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Is this guy really a vice-chancellor ? what kind of college is buckingham ?