--- title: Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women ‘Penis Homes’ description: This article originally appeared on Patheos. Things have been getting worse and worse for Mark Driscoll in recent weeks. But what I want to point... canonical: https://time.com/3304861/pastor-mark-driscoll-penis-homes/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T19:51:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:43:04.007Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women "Penis Homes" og:description: The fallen pastor made sexist online comments og:url: https://time.com/3304861/pastor-mark-driscoll-penis-homes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women "Penis Homes" twitter:description: The fallen pastor made sexist online comments twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women 'Penis Homes' by [Patheos](https://time.com/author/patheos/) ## Patheos Sep 8, 2014 7:51 PM UTC by [Patheos](https://time.com/author/patheos/) ## Patheos Sep 8, 2014 7:51 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/09/pastor-mark-driscoll-called-women-penis-homes.html) _originally appeared on_ [_Patheos_](http://www.patheos.com)_._ Things have been getting worse and worse for Mark Driscoll in recent weeks. But what I want to point out for a moment is one of Driscoll’s posts from 2001, when he was posting to a church message board under the name William Wallace II. I have rarely seen an evangelical man assert male superiority and prominence this directly. --- > “” --- Yes, really. Men’s penises are on loan from God, and women were created to be “homes” for men’s penises. So much for any claims of men and women being “equal before God.” No, men were created by God and loaned penises. Women were then created by God to be penis homes. --- > “” --- Notice that all women are portrayed as another man’s penis home, whether or not they are married. This squares with what I was taught—every woman is some man’s future wife, and that man owns her body even before they meet. --- > “” --- Oh yes, a man should keep “his home” sexually satisfied. And the wife, for her part, should be sexually arousing to her husband and “rejoice” when he has an erection. This sad attempt at mutuality fails when the one party is described as a penis home. You can view the full screenshot [here](http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/files/2014/09/Driscoll.jpg). Frankly, I’m not surprised that this is the viewpoint taken by at least some evangelical men. All to many evangelical and fundamentalist advice books treat the man as the primary creation and the woman as, well, merely his _helper_. The man is primary, the woman is secondary. The man was created for God’s glory, the woman for man. These individuals claim that men and women are nevertheless equal before God, but that claim rings hollow when placed alongside the rest of their rhetoric. The claim that women are uplifted and honored as caregivers and nurturers in the home also rings hollow in this context. In Driscoll’s treatment, women are no more than penis homes. Women were created to satisfy men. There is nothing uplifting or honored in that. Even many evangelical and fundamentalist women, who are attracted to those beliefs in part because of the rhetorical value they place on homemaking, must surely be appalled by Driscoll’s rhetoric. In a sense, Driscoll’s downfall was only a matter of time. _Libby Anne is a blogger for Patheos._ _Read more from Patheos:_ * [Mars Hill Announces Church Closings, Staff Layoffs](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2014/09/07/mars-hill-church-to-close-three-locations-another-on-hold/) * [Mark Driscoll Encourages Us to Point People to Jesus](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2014/09/mark-driscoll-encourages-us-to-point-people-to-jesus/) * [“Real Marriage” – Polarizing, Controversial, or Just the Same Old Mark Driscoll?](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2014/09/mark-and-grace-driscolls-real-marriage-review-series/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3304861/pastor-mark-driscoll-penis-homes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3304861/pastor-mark-driscoll-penis-homes/"},"headline":"Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women 'Penis Homes'","datePublished":"2014-09-08T19:51:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:04.007Z","description":"This article originally appeared on Patheos. 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