Sexual Contract

Analysing about marriage and contracts, whether it may be marriage as contract or interesting study of the sexual contract, that it was lead by rape, and its finds its origin in the sexual contract which Carole Pateman explained. The Social Contract, which Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau dealt with, speaks of political obligation, obedience and legitimacy, and is, remarkably, by and large, silent about women.

Locke spokes about wife being subjected to their husband, even though he had nothing, other than modern social norms to support his assertion. In marriage, women were assumed to interchange obedience for protection, therefore they could not enter truly into a contact with free will and their autonomy is lost.

Men Influential:

The political rights approved in the Social Contract find their roots in the Sexual Right granted by the Sexual Contract which must have been simultaneous to, if not antecedent to the Social Contract. The performance of the Sexual Contract that the Natural Right which men enjoyed over women in the State of Nature is transformed into a legitimate, patriarchal, civil right. While the exact story of the Social Contract differs depending on who relate it, the common to all 17th and 18th century versions of the contract is, that it is a contact entered into by men of their own free will to start a justifiable structure, and to disagree with the chaos, established in the State of Nature. The story of the contract is consistently presented as a story in which free will, rational thought, and individualism win through, a story in which men give up some of the rights they "enjoyed" in the State of Nature in exchange for social structure and, so to speak, the greater good.

Paternal rights and Political Rights:

The patriarchy established by the social contract includes number of faces including the paternal and political rights. Some theorists argued as both are different and some said both are different.  Women must involve themselves into social regime for patriarchal rights to start at all. Paternal rights for women cannot arise without women becoming mother and for this to happen, there must be an incidental and accessory unmentioned right which men enjoy: the Sex Right, a right included in the Sexual Contract which grants men dominion over women and their bodies. The existence of a society based on the performance of the Social Contract must necessarily also be based on the performance of the Sexual Contract.

Questions:

• What is lost for women when they get married?
• Should women involve themselves in social regime?