Sociology Courses | January 17, 2006

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Sex Cultures: 6th Period

After the bell rings, Grissom gives a lecture on Sexuality in Ancient Egypt, cringing just a little at the mention of Hathor.

He then asks his students to file into the hallway, where he has strung up several posters of Bast right before 6th Period.

"Bast, as you can see here in many forms, is the Egyptian Goddess of cats, women, children, love, fertility, birth, music, and dance."

Discussion: What do you think it says about a society, to have their goddess of sensuality associated with an animal? Do you like the symbolism, does it disgust you, can you relate this to your own culture, or does it seem like an outdated and ancient concept?

Homework: Read this handout with global definitions of sex, sexuality, and sexual rights.

Comments

Re: Class: 1/17

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

"I don't get why anybody would get disgusted by it. I mean, it's just symbolic or whatever, it's not like they were saying you should go out and have sex with cats, right? Like everybody else said, your cat things have characteristics that relate to sex. As for outdated," she shrugs, "some of the most advanced people I know represent death (er... not DEATH death, though) as a serpent. I'm not sure that that's any different. It's just that animals have obvious characterstics that makes them obvious symbols for things."