Those Donkey-Dicked Egyptians
There’s a passage in the bible (Ezekial 23:19-20) that’s remarkably forthright about the alleged sexual attributes of the Egyptians:
Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
If you might be even a little bit confused what is meant by “flesh” and “issue” in this passage, I have the delicately helpful commentary of Gill’s Exposition to clear things up:
By “flesh” is meant the “membrum virile”, which in asses is very large, and therefore dedicated to Priapus by the Heathens; and vast is the profusion of seed in coitus by horses, to which the flesh and issue of the Egyptian paramours are compared; who were very libidinous, and therefore desirable to insatiable women.
Well, all righty then!
(Actually, the entirety of Ezekial 23 reads rather like pornography, if you ask me.)
P.S. Yes, I’ve blogged about this before, but I didn’t remember until I’d already hit the post button. Seven years is a long time; some duplication is inevitable.
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It makes one wonder if perhaps the author of Ezekiel was familiar with the particular genre in ancient Egyptian art represented, for example, by this object, now in the Brooklyn Museum: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3641
I’ve heard of guys being nicknamed ‘Tripod’ but that really takes the cake!
Last week at my sister’s house we watched “Keeping Mum” http://www.imdb..._tt_1
At one point the housekeeper, aware that the vicar’s love life was almost extinct, said that in her opinion the bible is full of sex. For example the Song of Solomon. The vicar proceeds to read it and becomes so aroused that his lust is rekindled and his marriage is eventually saved.
Ahhhh. What a happy ending.
If they had eplained that this kind of material was in the bible I would have attended church more often and read the bible daily.