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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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