From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn of the Living Dead)
Subject: Re: Crone Sexuality was: Laws and Rape
Date: 28 Jul 1993 16:28:35 GMT

ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com, Ashley writes: 
> It would be interesting to dig up information on sexuality in past
> times and the effects of the repression of the age on the fantasies
> of individulas living in that age. I suspect the place to look for
> the fantasies would be art and literature, but with men historicly
> dominating both fields, I suspect finding women's fantasies would be
> difficult.

The book _Sex in History_ by Reay Tannahill is one of my favorites.
It's amazing that she managed to cover so many eras and cultures and
still maintain her level of detail.  Very good book.  She doesn't
think much of the Venus of Willendorf and other venus figures as
goddesses, but I've read so much of the other side that I enjoyed
reading her views.

Her bibliography would be a good place to start for any look at sexual
fantasies of the past, but I think you're right.  There's not much
source material for women's fantasies too far in the past.

Dawn
-- 
"Then I check out that chick Leda with the swan pecking at her pink egg
tempera nipple.  Hey, what that swan be doing?  And why?  And how 'bout
those plump maidens, those hot cherubic babes being presented to Apollo,
Dionysius, Neptune or one of those other well hung gods?"  Bongwater

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