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    History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World
    History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World
    History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World
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    History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World

    By Joe Darling

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    “Free sex” or sexual liberation is by no means a modern phenomenon. Several pre-industrial, and even pre-agrarian and communities had no qualms about premarital and extramarital sex, group sex, and even wife swapping. Men have always acted upon the natural urge for sex outside the traditional confines of marriages imposed by society from time to time. In fact, the “guilt-laden” approach to free sex imposed by religion is of relatively recent origin, and the definition of what constitutes “vice” or “sin” has undergone a sea change over the years. This book traces the history of sexual freedom enjoyed by people in different cultures and civilizations, right from the early civilizations, to the present day,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoe Darling
    Release dateJul 13, 2016
    ISBN9781311700926
    History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World
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    Joe Darling

    A free-spirit who found liberation in writing. Having written hundreds of nonfiction and stories over the last three decades, online erotica is now my speciality. Vivid imagination, strong, in-depth research, and a lucid style, and suspense that keeps readers on tenderhooks are what you can expect in my books.

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      History of Sex and Promiscuity Around the World - Joe Darling

      HISTORY OF SEX AND PROMISCUITY AROUND THE WORLD

      Joe Darling

      Copyright 2016 Joe Darling

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold o given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Preface

      ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

      Compulsory Prostitution in Mesopotamia

      Open Sex in Ancient Egypt

      Widow Inheritance of Kenya

      Open Debauchery in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Persia

      Parental approval of premarital sex in Polynesia

      Divine Free Sex in Ancient Greek Civilization

      Hedonism of the Romans

      Chastity Considered as Vile by the Incas

      THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

      Post Roman Europe

      Islamic Arabia

      Spanish America

      Bestiality of Northern Columbia

      THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

      European Renaissance

      Victorian Era (19th century England)

      The Libertines

      Australia

      The Americas

      The Oneida Community

      Greenwich Village Feminism

      The Beat Generation

      Psychological Studies

      Continental Europe

      France: The Free Love Revolution

      Weimer Republic: A Sexual Paradise

      Sigmund Freud

      The Communist Dilemma

      THE MODERN ERA

      The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s

      Surrealist and Counterculture Movement

      Kerista

      Family International

      Second Wave Feminism

      Legalization of Erotic Novels

      Sex Manuals

      The Rise of Porn

      Hollywood and the Sexual Revolution

      The Present Day

      Modern day Anarchists

      SEXUALITY IN THE EAST

      India

      China

      Japan

      Thailand

      Indonesia

      Cambodia

      Preface

      Free sex or sexual liberation is by no means a modern phenomenon. Several pre-industrial, and even pre-agrarian and communities had no qualms about premarital and extramarital sex, group sex, and even wife swapping. Men have always acted upon the natural urge for sex outside the traditional confines of marriages imposed by society from time to time. In fact, the guilt-laden approach to free sex imposed by religion is of relatively recent origin, and the definition of what constitutes vice or sin has undergone a sea change over the years.

      The acceptability of premarital or extramarital sex as a norm varies among individuals, and cultures, from time to time. Most western cultures of the past, until the advent of Christianity, were quite open regarding sex did not consider chastity as a virtue. Promiscuity or free sex was regarded as normal in pre-Christian North American communities, and African tribes, with the onus of raising children falling on the community or the village. Much of the modern free-love tradition traces back to such an approach, and also reflects a libertarian philosophy seeking freedom from the regulations imposed by state and religion.

      ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

      Compulsory Prostitution in Mesopotamia

      Mesopotamia or the area comprising of present day Iraq, eastern Syria, South Eastern Turkey and South West Iran is the Cradle of Civilization, or the place where the first literate communities developed. By 6000 B.C. a thriving Sumerian civilization flourished in these lands.

      A key feature of the Sumerian religious practice was the annual festival at the temple of Bel at Babylon, and probably in other temples in other cities. These festivities were marked by unbridled fun, gaiety, and merry-making, with music and dancing the norm. The wine was freely drunk and passion excited to the hilt, with revelries culminating in wild orgies. Free sexual indulgences were the norm in such revelries and orgies.

      In another notable tradition, each woman was required to visit the temple of Beltis once in her lifetime, and remain there until any stranger cast money in her lap and took her away with him. These women veiled themselves and sat within the holy enclosure of the temple, as strangers passed along them and made their choice. A woman who once took the seat was not allowed to return home until one of the strangers threw a silver coin into her lap, and took her with him, beyond the holy ground, to have sex. It was forbidden by law for the women to refuse the silver coin, and the women had to go with the first man who threw the money, rejecting no one. Naturally, tall and beautiful women had to spend very little time in the temple before they could go home, whereas relatively ugly women had to wait much longer, in some instances as long as three to four years, before they could leave the precinct.

      There was also a custom of bride auction, where all women eligible to be married were gathered in the village square, and auctioned off to the highest bidder.

      Open Sex in Ancient Egypt

      Ancient Egyptians were not far off from their Sumerian counterparts when it came to open sex. Men and women, both

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