today but the moment the woman asks for money, then he will use pride. Pride can never solve that problem. (Kofi)"

If the wife questioned the men's inability to provide for her and his children, men interpreted this as a direct assault on his masculinity and would use violence to temporarily reclaim his honour.

She is mine and must allow me to do it (sex) {#Sec14}
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In the interviews, several men emphasized that the wife's responsibility towards her husband centered around her 'pampering' him. According to these men, 'pampering' meant to sexually pleasure and satisfy the male partner. Two reasons appeared to inform these men's sexual entitlement on their female partners: the bride-price and the notion that 'men own their female partner (i.e. 'You are my girl')'. In the interviews, mensmooth, there will definitely be beatings, but they are no big issues*'. Through first diminishing and even dehumanizing women, men found it easier to inflict violence on their female partners.

For some men, wife beating was an entitlement that came with marriage, and was closely tied to men's payment of the bride price for the wife. Adom's quote below shows this:

"When I used to stay here the relationship that exists between a man and woman sometimes it's heart-breaking ... because a man can be living together with a woman while he has not performed the marriage rites, but the man beats the woman like he has performed the marriage rites of the woman. (Adom)"

Wives were perceived to be men's possessions and thus under their control. Dodzi explained that: '*for