# Quote — Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X

> Father-dominated people who form father-dominated cultures have father-religions: a male deity, an authoritative scripture, a strong central government, an intolerance for inquiry and research, a repressive sexual attitude, a deep conservatism (for one does not change what Father built), a rigid demarcation, in dress and conduct, between the sexes, and a profound horror of homosexuality.
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> Mother-dominated people who form mother-dominated cultures have mother religions: a female deity served by priestesses, a liberal government—one which feeds the masses and succors the helpless—a great tolerance for experimental thought, a permissive attitude toward sex, a hazy boundary between the insignes of the sexes, and a dread of incest.

- Author: [Theodore Sturgeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon.md)
- Book: [Venus Plus X](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x.md)
- Page: 131
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/father-dominated-people-who

## More from this book

> Is it men’s disgust of women that makes so many of them treat women with such contempt? Is it that which makes it so easy to point out that the Don Juans and the Lotharios, for all their hunger for women, are often merely trying to see how many women they can punish?

p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/is-it-mens.md)

> So it is easily seen that the sexual insignes are nothing in themselves, for any of them, in another time and place, might belong to both sexes, the other sex, or neither. In other words, a skirt does not make the social entity, woman. It takes a skirt plus a social attitude to do it.
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> But all through history, in virtually every culture and country, there has indeed been a “woman’s province” and a “man’s province,” and in most cases the differences between them have been exploited to fantastic, sometimes sickening extremes.
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> Why?

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/so-it-is-easily.md)

> There were a lot of people living in his time who never did latch on to the idea that the curve of technological progress was not a flat slanting line like a diving board, but a geometrical curve like a ski-jump. These wistful and mixed-up souls were always suffering from attacks of belated conservatism, clutching suddenly at this dying thing and that, trying to keep it or bring it back. It wasn’t real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.

p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/there-were-a-lot.md)