![]() ![]() ![]() The women (or woman) are young and pretty by ancient Egyptian standards. ![]() The men (which many say is just one man in different scenes) are disheveled and balding, with very exaggerated members. Some Egyptologists were quite unnerved and disappointed in ancient Egyptian culture as a whole after having dealt with its grandeur and then seeing the overt vulgarity of the scenes.īut again, if seen for its satirical value, one can’t help but be amused – which seems to have been the original purpose of the papyrus anyway. And so that may be why this particular papyrus had a lot of shock value. Words and pictures would elude to sexual meaning rather than state things directly. ![]() The battle between Horus and Seti included sodomy as a form of undermining the rule of the other.Ī lot of the mythology contained very explicit sexual content.Īs for human relations, they were also depicted and expressed, but perhaps in a more suggestive rather than obvious way. In fact, in the more popular creation myth – the creator god himself made his first offspring by consuming and then spitting out his own seed. The ancient Egyptians loved to parody their own lives… The Turin Erotic Papyrus Vignettesīack to the Turin Papyrus – this is where it gets a little more controversial.įirst of all, the ancient Egyptians were not shy by any standards to talk about sex and sexuality. Other scenes on this papyrus include such preposterous things as a mouse being pampered by cats.
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