1150 BCE, Museo Egizio, Turin, via Amusing Planetīefore x-rated websites and before Playboy magazine, there was the Turin erotic papyrus. The Egyptians Liked Porn Recreation of the Turin erotic papyrus, c. I believe they actually are songs sung at weddings.ĥ. With graceful steps she treads the ground,Įgyptologists have long called these “ love songs” sung by unmarried lovers. Here’s an excerpt describing a woman’s body using imaginative metaphors: The ancient Egyptians sang similar songs. Or not, as it is a pretty risqué part of the holy book that they normally don’t teach in Sunday school, with racy descriptions of a woman’s body. You may be familiar with Solomon’s Song of Songs in the Bible.

Sensuous Songs Women dancing and playing music, 18th dynasty, via the British Museum, London In one case, he raped a woman by ripping off her clothes and throwing her on top of a wall.Ĥ. He had intercourse with many married women and his son even joined him in his escapades with an unmarried woman. A rather sordid affair is attested from the village Deir el-Medina where the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings.Ī chief workman named Paneb engaged in all sorts of nefarious behavior such as theft, corruption, and fighting. But they were not only frowned upon, but could be punished by death. Extramarital relationships surely existed. Like in any society, sex in ancient Egypt did not only take place within a marital context. Adultery Was Punishable By Death A sketch from Deir el-Medina showing a couple having intercourse, 19-20th dynasty, via the British Museum, London He was associated with lettuce as Egyptian lettuce emitted a white milky sap similar to semen.ģ. Men suffering from impotence would make offerings of phallic figurines to the god. He had a permanently erect phallus and wore a feathered headdress. The god Min was the primary male fertility god and par excellence associated with sex in ancient Egypt. Another God Was Known For His Permanently Erect Phallus Wall relief of Alexander the Great and Min in Luxor Temple, his phallus darkened by pilgrims’ hands, via Wikimedia Commons Finally, in the Greco-Roman period, the term “god’s hand” came to be associated with fertility goddesses, a far cry from its origins thousands of years prior.Ģ.

These daughters were responsible for the day-to-day administration of the country. Royal women of Dynasty 18 often bore this title and it came to be very common as a title of the daughters of the Nubian kings who ruled Egypt in Dynasty 25. The term “the god’s hand” came to be associated with females over time since Atum’s hand played the female role in the original creation. He had no wife, so in order to beget his children, Shu and Tefnut, he masturbated.

The very first Egyptian god was Atum, who created himself. The Beginning Of Creation Was By Masturbation Atum giving birth to one of his own children,

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