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ismnotwasm

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12. Depends on how you view the past
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 05:43 PM
Jun 2014

They believed in Gods, Goddesses, omen, witches, ghosts, spirits of all sorts. That's the only way they had the interpret their world. They didn't know what caused storms, draughts, babies, good weather, didn't know what death was, exactly---they gave Gods the credit. (Although I just know there was a skeptic or two)

Personally, as I alluded to earlier, you go back far enough, or look at certain cultures you don't think of sex as pornographic. It just is.

But you have to look at a number of cultures; our oldest set of legal rules, the Code of Hammurabi, was clearly patriartical, as well as classist. The two often go together.

Old Celtic cultures-- much has been lost, but there are indications women had some equality, as well as sexual freedom. Unfortunately war and religious conversion brought a sense of shame to sex, as well as destroying many, many cultures, not just the Celts.

Pornagraphy itself, or seeing sex as pornography seems to me a way to control and commodify human sexual behavior.

The word has too much baggage, I guess

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Maybe that's where the term "chick" came from corkhead Jun 2014 #1
... it does, doesn't it? Squinch Jun 2014 #8
What the fuck. ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #2
Great site! Thanks. Squinch Jun 2014 #7
I had an anthropology prof in college geardaddy Jun 2014 #3
Anthropology was a male dominated field ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #4
That's why I liked her classes the best geardaddy Jun 2014 #5
... ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #6
There is a great documentary that is available on youtube robbob Jun 2014 #9
It would seem that any modern interpretation will invariably carry a modern bias Orrex Jun 2014 #10
Depends on how you view the past ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #12
"...seeing sex as pornography seems to me a way to control and commodify human sexual behavior." nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #13
I think, in a certain sense the idea of pornography evolved from Christians ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #14
Hard to see the David/Jonathan story as anything but a romance. Also the story of Jesus healing nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #15
Exactly ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #17
I was a lit major in college - had to write analytical essays on all sorts of texts - nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #18
Now this is interesting. redqueen Jun 2014 #20
Aw shoot! I thought Violet may have returned... boston bean Jun 2014 #11
Probably a little Goddess figure libodem Jun 2014 #16
That's also interesting. redqueen Jun 2014 #21
Where's the baby bump? IronLionZion Jun 2014 #19
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