Sexual Deviance

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Sexual Deviance

• By Patricia Xi

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Map of Weird Sexual Behavior
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Key to the map
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General Deviance

• Handsome boy to gratify a man who is not his
  lover (Dissoi logoi, 2)
• Have sex in public spaces (Dissoi logoi, 4)
• Have sex with someone elses spouse (Dissoi
  logoi, 5)
• Women having sex before marriage (Dissoi logoi,
  12)
• Women having sex outside of marriage (Dissoi
  logoi 12)
• Incest (Dissoi, logoi 15)
• Marry a prostitute (Dissoi, logoi 16)
• Have sex in temples (II.64-65, Herodotus, p121)
• Prostitute your daughter (I.94, Herodotus, p44)

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Sexual Norm

• Handsome boy to gratify his lover (Dissoi logoi,
  2)
• Have sex with ones husband/wife in private
  (Dissoi logoi, 4)
• Monogamous marriage
• Cleansing after sex when entering a temple
• Marriage produces babies (I.61, Herodotus, p26)

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Marriage

• Macedonian women have sex before marriage (Dissoi
  logoi, 12)
• Thracians have multiple wives, and they purchase
  their wives (V.5-6, Herodotus, p312)
• Lydian women choose their husbands (I.93,
  Herodotus, p44)
• Babylonians auction women for marriage (I.196,
  Herodotus, p86-87)
• Amazons cant become wives unless they have
  killed their enemy. (IV.117, Herodotus, p278)
• Nasamones participate in polygamy (IV.172,
  Herodotus, p300)
• Massagetae wives are promiscuous (I.216,
  Herodotus, p94)
• Auses dont really have marriage. Women common
  property, intercourse is casual, like that of
  animals (IV.180, Herodotus, p302)

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Children

• According to Duris, Calingian (Indian) women
  conceive at age 5 (and die around age 8)
  (51.1.30, Sourcebook, C. Plinuius Secundus)
• According to Ctesias (Indian), women bear
  children only once in their life-time (51.1.23,
  Sourcebook, C. Plinuius Secundus)
• Psyllians expose children to dangerous snakes to
  test wifes fidelity according to Agatharchides.
  (51.1.14, Sourcebook, C. Plinuius Secundus)

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Prostitution

• Prostitution for dowry in Lydia (Dissoi Logoi,
  16, I.93, Herodotus, p44)
• In Temples
• Babylonians (I.199, Herodotus, p87-88)
• Egyptians and Greeks deem this very deviant

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Matters of the Penis Circumcision and Sperm

• And when pestilence and devastation occur,
  Cronus makes his only-begotten son a whole burnt
  offering to his father Uranus and circumcises his
  genitals, compelling his allies also to do the
  same. (54.1, Sourcebook, Herennius Philo of
  Byblos)
• Circumcision originated with Egyptians and
  Ethiopians (II.104, Herodotus p134)
• They Egyptians circumcise themselves for
  cleanliness sake, preferring to be clean rather
  than comely. (II.37, Herodotus p110)
• People who practice circumcision include (42.2
  Sourcebook, Herodotus)
• Colchians
• Ethiopians
• Egyptians (II.36, II.37, II.104, Herodotus, p109,
  110, 134)
• Macriones
• Palestinian Syrians
• Syrians
• Phoenicians (except those in contact w/Greeks)
  (II. 104, Herodotus pg 135)
• Black sperm
• Ethiopians and Egyptians (III.101, Herodotus,
  p215)

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Other Sexual Behaviors

• Persians participate in incest (Dissoi logoi, 15)
• Bestiality
• Indians practice bestiality according to Duris
  (51.1.30, Sourcebook)
• Mendesians (Egyptian). The Mendesians hold all
  goats in veneration, especially male ones, whose
  keepers enjoy special honoursMendes is the
  Egyptian name both for Pan and for a goat. In
  this provcince in my lifetime a goat had
  intercourse with a woman, in full view of
  everybody a most surprising incident, which
  became publicly known. (II.46, Herodotus,
  p114-115)
• Women wear leather bands for the number of lovers
  theyve had. (IV.176, Herodotus, p301)
• (Unmarried) Thracian girls have intercourse with
  any man they please. (V.6, Herodotus, p312)
• Outdoor copulation
• Natives of the Caucasus (I. 203, Herodotus, p89)
• Indians (III.101, Herodotus, p215)