"For 2,000 years, the question Christians have feared most isn’t whether Mary of Nazareth was a virgin. It’s whether an illiterate, poor, politically powerless, teenage girl living under imperial military occupation, with no meaningful autonomy over her body or her future, had any real ability to refuse, and what refusing would have cost her."https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/did-mary-really-consent-to-giving