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Porneia means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body. Drawing on Roman and Greek works of science, medicine, gynaecology and law and on Christian and pagan religious texts, Aline Rousselle discovers the intimate fears, passions, superstitions and ambitions of the people of the Mediterranean world during the first four centuries AD. The first part of the book describes Roman notions of male and female sexuality, including the extraordinary rituals of orgy, castration and sacrifice associated with ancient rites of fertility and spirituality. The second part is concerned with the impact of Christian ideas upon a settled pagan tradition. Abstinence, once associated with the enhancement of fertility, becomes the key to salvation.
- Sales Rank: #2827366 in Books
- Published on: 1993-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.00" w x .50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Gotta love this well research tome on love, sex and God
By Dan E. Nicholas
It's 3AM and I'm re-reading a book I bought a decade ago on the topic love, sex and God by Aline Rousselle, written and researched pre-Internet in 1983 in French. I'm fascinated and can't put it down because--TMI warning: too much information--the title jumped out at me while working my memoir chapter by the same title-Porneia. This thought: "Damn! These are the same questions I was going through as a young man at the age of 15 discovering Christianity at the same time I was entering the throes and conflicts of puberty! Sex is happening to my body and God is knocking at my hearts door at the same time. How do I ever integrate the two?"
Rousselle's work and Ms. Pheasant's translation may be all about antiquity, but they bring to light very current topics for anyone who takes God seriously.
Fast forward fifty years and I worry less about offending God with my sex as I did when I was 15. But I still am intrigued by how the church fathers wrestled with such things as wet dreams and masturbation and desire for a woman. And this after having recently traveled on pilgrimage to St. Catherine's on the Sinai Peninsula amidst the sands of the exact same Egyptian desert she Rousselle writes about in her wonderful work on antiquity and the matter of sex, God and desire. As a former priest and Eastern Christian and a man, how can you not but love what this woman has researched and written. If you can still find it, buy this book!
My only regret in my quick review here is that among the rich footnotes and Bibliography citations are mostly French works not yet translated into English. So, hats off to Falicia Pheasant for her fine work in translating this wonderful book into English.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Sex inc, since 2000 BC
By Roberto Quintas
A looking at the thougts, imagery, politic and views about the body, the pleasure and sex, at the ancient times.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Porno (?) sex in antiquity
By listener
Let's face it, the world --and how we understand it -- has changed a lot in two thousand years. Unlike the world in Antiquity (at the time of the Greeks or Romans), most of the population today does NOT consist of slaves, where most of us would be mere property to be worked to death. We don't go to gladiatorial games to see someone being killed in front of our eyes, we don't cut the jugular on a steer at a sacrifice at a temple of the gods, and when we are in a city we don't go from one place to another only by walking on foot or being carried in a slave-borne litter. Why would we expect ancient sex practices as illustrated on vases or described in ancient texts to be any less different?
Marriage by rape (real or simulated) may have been the expected thing in ancient Rome, but it would horrify (officially, at any rate) an American or modern European.
As to what we now call homosexual practices in our modern world, same-sex sex in Antiquity had a quite different meaning than it does today. It wasn't a horrifying or titillating practice, it was just one of those things that happened every so often, a very ordinary common-place thing, no more shocking than the occurrence of a rainy day, a dog barking, grain cooking, etc.
Sex practices in Antiquity were divinely inspired and modelled by the gods. Zeus, the father of the gods, according to ancient texts and illustrations, was obviously expected to have sex with his cute male cup-bearer (why else have a cute male cup-bearer?). He was expected to sire the gods on his sister-wife Hera, and he was expected to have (fertile) sex with any cute mortal woman and sire heroes like Hercules.
It may be very modern to get all hung up on the fact that a painting on an ancient vase shows one of the gods having [...] sex with a male, but it was no more shocking than any other fact of life to the people two millennia ago. In fact what we in today's world call having a male "annally raped" by another (very obviously) well-endowed male was a fertility rite to increase agricultural crop yield among the Etruscans who pre-dated the Romans in Italy. Call it the ultimate "natural fertilizer" practice.
To try to impose our modern views, feelings, meanings on people and events that predate the Current Era (better known as B.C.) is to distort the truth.
But if all you want is to be secretly titillated by descriptions and illustrations of sexual practices that were ordinary then, and "shocking" today, by all means go for this book.
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