It is intuitively obvious that there are connections between social, religious, and cultural norms, values, and stereotypes that establish, maintain, and justify a sex-based hierarchy. Echoing the words of Kate Millett, from the Indian woman forced to die on her husband's funeral pyre to the girls abandoned in Chinese orphanages; from the brutalization and rape of tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of women in the Congo to the girl who has her clitoris cut out; from the uneven distribution of property ownership to the gendered division of domestic labor; from the recent exclusion of women from education in Iran to unsafe sexual practices in Africa; from rates of political participation and representation in Europe to the dowry system; from sexual segregation in Israel to the "rape" law in Afghanistan;¹ from the economy of sex-trafficking to the language of sex in Nuts and Loaded, sexual oppression is ubiquitous. With all the usual caveats concerning local practices and without making any claims as to the experience of oppression, it certainly seems as though we are dealing with something that is cross-cultural and transhistorical.