Throughout her life, Margery Kempe had an uncommon desire to escape her bourgeois life and did everything in her power to do so. Kempe was raped repeatedly by her husband which led to her declaring a mystical marriage to Jesus. During the time which Kempe was alive, sex was something that partners did not only for procreation, but enjoyment. Kempe despised sex with her husband. In order to escape her marriage to her husband, she created the mystical marriage, in spite of the societal standards that excluded women from religious roles, such as the one Margery was attempting to assume. On the other hand, using the description of the bourgeois housewife as seen in fabliaux’s, Kempe fit that description nearly perfectly. Kempe seems to fit a sort