But there are passages in the bible that are equally dodgy...
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ofe_bibl.htm
Genesis 16:2 : Sarah gave permission to her husband Abraham to engage in ***ual intercourse with her maid, Hagar: "Sarai said unto Abram...I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her." Presumably this was done without the consent of Hagar, who had such a low status in the society of the day that she was required to submit to multiple rapes at her owner's command.
Genesis 21:10: A man could simultaneously keep numerous concubines. These were ***ual partners of an even lower status than a wife was. As implied in this verse she could be dismissed when no longer needed: Sarah is recorded as saying: "...Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." Abraham had two concubines; Gideon: at least 1; David: many; Nahor: 1; Jacob: 1; Eliphaz: 1; Gideon: 1; Caleb: 2; Manassah: 1; Saul: 1; David: at least 10; Rehoboam: 60; Solomon: 300; an unidentified Levite: 1; Belshazzar: more than 1.
No, there is something else going on here. Perhaps a culture that allows young girls to wear Playboy merchandise and whose models don't get work unless they resemble pre-pubescent ****agers might need to look at itself?. The Sun newspaper has only just stopped having topless 16 year olds on page 3.
Mixed messages and all that.