“Sin generates distrust and division between the man and the woman,” he continued. “Their relationship will be undermined by a thousand kinds of abuse and subjugation, of deceitful seduction and demeaning humiliations, up to the most dramatic and violent.” The Pontiff referred to “the negative excesses of patriarchal cultures” and “the multiple forms of ‘machismo,’” as well as “the instrumentalization and commodification of the female body in the current media culture.”
