…Revel in pleasure while your life endures And deck your head with myrrh. Be richly clad In white and perfumed linen; like the gods Anointed be; and never weary grow In eager quest of what your heard desires – Do as it prompts you…
Category: Ancient Sex
Sex life of the ancient Greeks in all its physical glory
A marble statuette of a sleeping Eros and a lion next to him on display at the Cycladic Art museum in Athens. Photograph: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters The ancient Greeks were never at a loss for words when it came to love and lust – and an exhibition that opened in Athens today laying bare the practice… Continue reading Sex life of the ancient Greeks in all its physical glory
History Of Sex – Ancient Cultures
History Of Sex – Ancient Cultures
Morals and Sexual Morality in Ancient egypt
Modesty, as distinct from fidelity, was not prominent among the Egyptians; they spoke of sexual affairs with a directness alien to our late sexual morality. Life in Ancient Egypt, Morals and Sexual Morality
Pre-Columbian pottery female figure
A very striking fragment from a pottery figure of a nude curvaceous female. Pre-Columbian, possibly Guerrero, 2nd Millennium BC Size: 9.5 x 6.2 cms Fragment as shown Ex. private collection, Oxford, UK.
Morals and Sexual Morality
“In the Life in Ancient Egypt” Modesty, as distinct from fidelity, was not prominent among the Egyptians; they spoke of sexual affairs with a directness alien to our late sexual morality. Life in Ancient Egypt, Morals and Sexual Morality Ancient Egyptians adorned their very temples with pictures and bas-reliefs of startling anatomical candor, and supplied… Continue reading Morals and Sexual Morality