Even more than royal officials, the church exercised influence over people's everyday lives. I mean, the church even controlled time. The church bells tolled out the hours and they mandated a seven-day work week so that people could go to church on Sunday. And finally, there was patriarchy. In Latin America, like much of the world, husbands had complete control over their wives and any extra or premarital scoodily-pooping was severely punished. I mean, when it was the women doing the illicit scoodily-pooping, men could basically get up to whatever. This was mainly about property rights because illegitimate children could inherit their father's property, but it was constructed to be about, you know, purity.