SEX
IN HISTORY
THE
DAY THAT THE MAN WENT MAD
The situation didn't change much for tens of thousands of
years until, less than 20.000 years ago, the bow was invented
and raising livestock began. Man became hunter/breeder, and
theft and murder became convenient activities. A group of
capable archers could easily overwhelm a tribe, kill the males
from a distance and steal the women and herds. Man thus started
to kill, to rape, to steal and to reduce others to slavery.
The invention of war had a terrible impact on the lives of
our ancestors: economic and productive systems, customs, social
behaviours, and human relationships were completely revolutionized.
This caused a huge, terrifying psychological and mental shock.
How can you make love and enjoy food in the midst of a humanity
that dedicated itself to slaughter?
It was then that man went mad. The power of the male/warrior/breeder
became limitless and he ousted the woman, declaring himself
the stronger, and therefore the master. The men, armed with
bows, now wanted to keep whatever they mangaged to conquer
from their enemies all for themselves. This gave rise to a
patriarchal society that instituted marriage, the property
of wife and children, the existence of supreme male deities,
and the concept of sin.
The new sexual laws expected the woman to work for the husband
and bear him children. Moreover, it was decided that women
were to make love only with their legitimate husbands.
It never worked very well, seening that you can't command
the heart, and you certainly can't command sex. This didn't
prevent groups of fathers, clerics, wise and powerful men
to dedicate enormous energy in the attempt to convince everyone
that sex was evil.
Seening that they were cuckolds anyway, they became infuriated
like wild animals and attempted to punish their women, wives
and daughters in all ways in order to bend their instincts.
They invented Eve's apple and Pandora's box. The 'Great Mother'
became the first demon: Lilith. The biological importance
of the woman was denied - the woman came to be considered
merely ground for the cultivation of the seed of the male
who was the true author of the birth of a new life.
Woman was denied a soul or the right to vote. Adulteresses
were stoned and the priestesses of the surviving matriarchal
religions were burned, accused of witchcraft, obscenity and
heresy. Often women were prevented from owning anything and
of practising medicine. Everywhere rape became a common and
honourable practice.
Among many peoples, such as the Doric Greeks, the Romans,
and the Chinese, the murder of newborn females was practised
on a large scale: fewer women, fewer problems. Even in reduced
numbers, women continued to inspire fear, therefore it was
decreed that they had to eat less than men, remain segregated
in the home, and denied a liberal, scientific and artistic
education. Among the Doric Greeks, women who had given birth
to a female infant were fed less than those who had given
birth to a male.
Lastly, to prevent women from experiencing pleasure, the removal
of the clitoris was performed, something that is still practised
among some African populations. The chastity belt was invented
and the lips of the vagina were sewed up to prevent sex before
marriage or in case of the husband's prolonged absence.
Elsewhere women were physically disfigured in order to render
them truly inferior. In China, at the start of the Middle
Ages, young girls' feet were bound to hinder their natural
growth, thus transforming them into horrible, deformed, and
painful stumps.
All this brutality and stupidity caused an infinite number
of sexual problems.(1) Evidently, in this kind of climate,
lovemaking was not relaxed. Desires were repressed and understanding,
respect, and tenderness between men and women were non-existent.
Therefore all sorts of sexual perversion and extreme sexual
behaviour were embarked upon. Prostitution, pedophilia, and
pornography prospered. In short, taboos, as always happens,
unleashed desires, magnifying them and rendering them extreme.
Therefore the last ten thousand years have passed with a humiliating
sense of dissatisfaction and violence. Only with the industrial
revolution and woman's new economic and social role was this
tendency reversed.
Today we can say that woman has reclaimed the right to have
a soul, to own property and to vote. She is slowly regaining
social equality with man. This has made it possible again
to think of a truly enjoyable sexuality: love with liberated
women is better...
Isis resurrects Osiris with a blow-job, from the Papyrus of
Ani. Sacred images of male and female sexual organs in a Shintoist
temple.
1.
These historical themes are dealt with more extensively in
the volume "The True History of the World", Demetra
Publ., Universal Encyclopedia (September 1993).
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