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By the modern standard of consent, as an example, the patria potestas [0] rules effectively meant a power imbalance such that all hooking up would be under duress. I'm not arguing that anyone thought it was non-consensual then, because I don't think it's appropriate to try to apply modern emancipative thinking to societies of previous millennia, but one could certainly argue it. edit: markup [0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patria%20potestas https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patria%20potestas