Thank you for your always informed and much appreciated reply. I agree that the Bible is not an historical text.  Nevertheless, Tertullian, and other men, interpreted Genesis to further their patriarchal agenda, and these harsh views lived on in unspoken misogynistic attitudes.  I can't help but think of the Unwed Mother home in Taum, Ireland, where unwed mothers were seen as such a disgrace they were cast off by family and clergy and placed in dreadful State/Church homes,  forced to leave their illegitimate children to be trafficked to wealthy Americans. Those were the lucky ones-- a large percentage of children  died from ill-treatment and were buried in the remains of an old septic tank. This went on up to the 1960's.  Such a dim and dark view of human sexuality is an atrocity, and a blemish on the Catholic Church.  These antiquated doctrines must  be revised for the sake of our humanity. 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/.../tuam-ireland-babies-children.html