Like people everywhere, egyptians had affairs and suffered from lovemaking problems, which they treated with magic. How did the ancient egyptians view love, sex and marriage What were their views on homosexuality Did women have equal rights And what was childbirth like? So, what were the bizarre sex lives of people in ancient egypt like
There are many misconceptions surrounding how the ancient egyptians liked to get intimate because of the heavily censored nature of the history. Women in ancient egypt were accorded almost equal status with men in keeping with an ancient tale that, after the dawn of creation when osiris and isis reigned over the world, isis made the sexes equal in power Still, males were considered the dominant sex and predominantly male scribes wrote the literature which influenced how women were viewed. This is the myth of creation according to egyptian cosmogony It was natural for the people that inhabited the lands by the nile river to conceive sex as a meaningful act that went beyond reproduction and taboos, unlike societies influenced by christian morality Ancient egyptians were strongly convinced that their main source of livelihood had come from atum’s ejaculation, and it was their.
The ancient egyptians held views on sexuality that are fascinating to discover today. Sex in ancient egypt is a prime example
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