See Jacques LeGoff, Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), for vintage essays extending E. P. Thompson’s insights back again to the High Middle Ages. An early Christian would have been outright offended, since time, adequately talking, belonged only to God. I can say without the need of a question that I have in no way used favors, sexual or normally, as a rationale for controlling everyone.