![]() There is plenty more after that, and from one village or tribe or city to the next you’ll find a host of different churches with different sets of beliefs and rules around marriage. ![]() And so these African men took their own interpretation, said “hey, polygamy is okay,” and created their own segment of Christianity that accepted polygamy. And they read it, and they saw that while a picture of heterosexual monogamy may appear the ideal (in Genesis 2, and in all the metaphors about Christ and Church, and in Paul’s Haustafel passages), there were instances dotting the Old Testament where polygamy was practiced and never condemned (only in cases where the additional wives brought with them their idols and worship of false gods were David, Solomon and others chided). They had the spiritual leadership of these missionaries, but they also had the Bible itself. Some men wouldn’t keep their first wife, but instead their favorite, or youngest wife.īut still others had a different solution. Some missionaries would claim that only the first marriage was valid, and the others needed to be cast out - those rejected women would become something worse than widows, and were sometimes accused of witchcraft (a common scapegoat for cast-out women in Africa, especially for those where there was already a belief in witchcraft prior to the entry of the Gospel). The British brought the Anglican church in the 19th and 20th centuries, American Wesleyan / Methodist churches dominated much of the Central African missions movement.Īs people (and generally, whole communities) chose to convert, it created a unique situation for the wealthy males (often village leaders) with multiple wives. Basically, when Western missionaries brought the Gospel to indigenous African tribes and communities, they brought with it the entire worldview, the “in” social mores, and all biblical interpretation associated with this or that denomination. I wrote my undergrad thesis (for a major in Anthropology) on polygamy (specifically polygyny - one husband, multiple wives) in the Independent African Church movement. Polygamy and the World Christian Movement We’ll come back to these games … but before we do, a little history about my past academic pursuits. In these games, you play a male protagonist, and you can chase after one or more ladies in your quest to … do whatever it is you want to do. Here is something nice from Tokimeki Memorial 4 instead.Įxceptions aside, however, the vast majority of these games cater to the (so far) consistent target market of hormone-driven teenage males. ![]() Editor’s Note: NO PAT I AM NOT POSTING SCREENSHOTS OF THAT. For example, in “Song of Saya,” the protagonist (a hospitalized male) falls in love with an alien who appears as a demure, beautiful woman in the hallucinated dreamscape she forces him to enter, but who is monstrous and terrifying in reality. As varied as modern romantic/sexual relationships are in reality, so they are (and more) in the realm of fantasy. Whether the content of the game is sexually explicit or implicit, whether it’s tasteless or tasteful, the fact remains that there are hundreds of games where the goal is to woo another person, or perhaps more than one person, for either a one-night stand or a committed relationship of some kind. The RPG series Ar tonelico, the Otome title Hakuoki, Christine Love’s “Analogue: A Hate Story,” and other titles have given me some insight into the nature and culture of this type of game. I, however, played roughly ten visual novels with mechanics similar to eroge visual novels: that is, the opportunity to forge one or more romantic relationships with other characters in the game. I’ve never played a visual novel with erotic content (chiefly for personal moral reasons). Though pornography as an industry thrives in the West, erotic content in a text-driven narrative with hand-drawn or CG animated characters is all but unknown in North America.īeing an American, I am only tangentially acquainted with eroge. The term eroge (short for “erotic game”) refers to a specific, niche subset of visual novels that have a significant fan-base and following in Japan and other east Asian countries.
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