The way society views family roles, women, and sex speaks to the idea of ​​time. Late medieval Europe viewed these topics through the lens of the Catholic Church. These views began to pass through the lens of law through events such as the Reformation and voyages to the New World. Advances in science have changed these ideas as they have opened the doors of intellectual discourse. The French Revolution demonstrates that changes in understanding of family roles, women and sex had changed; from a healthy marriage where sex was sacred and a woman had to raise children to a broken marriage where sex was open to public scrutiny. In the discussion about family relationships, women's views and sex, it is necessary to start with the position that Catholicism had on the issue. The nuclear family model was the ideal of the Catholic Church; as this model provided protection, stability and trade connections. Ozment describes the nuclear family as the “total submission of the wife to the home and the husband, of the home to the production of the children, and of the children to the will of the parents” (Ozment, p. 2). This view assumes that a woman's sole purpose in life was to marry and have children; if this was not feasible she could enter a convent so as not to be a financial burden on her family. The Catholic Church also had a strict view on the topic of sex, which was not sex outside of marriage and was only procreated in marriage. This view was held because the Church believed that "a righteous person took pleasure only in God and used the things of the world for the glory of God, fallen men and women were slaves to their own lusts and passions, no longer masters of their own will , and desiring to worship the world in the place of its creator” (Ozment, pag....... half of the sheet ......ked “the court, the church, the aristocracy, the academies, the salons and the monarchy itself” through the lens of sexual sensationalism (Hunt, p. 91). Marie Antoinette were scandalous. because she was breaking the common view of proper sexual conduct. The French Revolution brought a change in the view of the family from a political position in late medieval Europe to early modern Europe, c 'it had been a social hierarchy based on family structure; the king had been the head of a social body held together by bonds of deference; the peasants deferred to their landowners... wives to their husbands and children to their parents. Authority in the state was explicitly modeled on the authority of the family” (Hunt, p. 3).