Babylon, based on about 4000 BC, is considered one of the first civilizations. As you know, thanks to the Code of Hammurapi, Babylon was a society with a rich and developed culture, with his writing, mathematics, a variety of cuisine and, of course, bed practices. Not even puritans, the ancient Greeks considered Babylonians a sexually obsessed culture.
1. in bed with a stranger
Greek sources tell a lot about the sexual life of the Babylonian people, and, of course, Babylon had sexual practices that would make modern people blush. Even the ancient Greeks considered Babylon loose culture when it comes to sexual standards.
For example, one of the generally accepted practices was sexual relations with strangers, as Greek writer Herodotus said. He described the next quirky custom: each Babylonian woman at least once in his life had to go to the temple to sleep with a completely unfamiliar man. Of course, it is worth noting that some historians challenge Herodotus records, but they agree that the cult prostitution existed in Babylon.
2. Temple prostitution
Prostitution in the temples occurred everywhere in the entire ancient world in the vicinity of the fertile crescent and around it. This practice dates back to ancient Sumerian culture, which arose in 4500 BC, from which the Babylonian culture was subsequently formed. It is believed that in Babylon created temples specially designed to occupy prostitution. These "Divine Bords" were not just a place where people bought intimate services - it was truly religious experience for the ancient Babylonians.
Here I did not even come about money. Rather, it can be called a generally accepted ritual practice of thanksgiving and worshiping the gods of ancient Babylon. It was a completely unique custom for Babylonians and similar cultures in the ancient Middle East, which was considered an integral part of their religious life.
3. Sin chastity
Christians would certainly be shocked, striking in ancient Babylon, because in the local culture there was a sinner not to have sex. As Herodotus told when a woman came to the temple with a completely definite goal (albeit in life), the first man who threw a coin to her knees should have been sleeping with this woman. Whether it is rich or poor, young or old, a woman could not refuse a man, regardless of his social status.
Herodotus also wrote about the less formal prostitution outside the temples, where the man allowed to sleep with everyone with his wife or children, if paid money for it. So for those who were looking for bed jaths, there were plenty of opportunities in ancient Babylon. Although today it may seem for Blud and Putting, this practice was widespread and socially acceptable in the Babylonian culture, which practically built fertility into the rank of Fetish.
It was a part of local religious experience, acts of donation and worship of their sexual goddess Inanna (also known as Ishtar). It is even difficult to imagine this now, but the culture existed on Earth, where it was considered a sin to refuse sex.
4. Depraved meals
Orgies and prostitution were pretty common in the ancient world, and Babylon did not exception. However, free love and open sexuality were not limited to the huge annual festivals, and Intimate reigned everywhere and in everyday life. Herodotus talked about local peaks and how they were held. In fact, the ancient Babylonians were popular with orgies, which began as simple dinners, but in the process became more and more loose.
As the dinner continued, the women gradually undressed until they became completely naked. You can only even guess what happened, but Herodotus noted that even the Greeks considered completely socially socially affordable during lunch.
5. Consecration of marriage in bed
In the Hammurapi Code, there is a lot about the sexual practices of the time and the laws concerning them. In ancient Babylon, each marriage had to be dedicated to sex, and was not considered official until the newlyweds actually entered the sexual intercourse. On a stone plate, dating back 1754 BC, engraved: "If a man takes a woman to his wife, but does not have any connections with her or does not enter into a marriage contract, this woman is not his wife for him."
6. Intimate everywhere
Babylonians were not timid or shy when it came to Intim; They were engaged in this at any time, anywhere and, it would seem, with anyone, when they want. Babylonians were openly engaged in love in the center of the city, on the nearest lawn or even climbed up the roof of their house, so that the city view was opened before them.
Nobody objected against such as such as Babylonians were extremely sexually open culture. From the temples to the roofs, before the bedroom to the roadside ... Babylonians did it everywhere. Perhaps, many will hardly be even imagined by a whole city of people dealing with love everywhere.
7. Marriage markets
The marriage markets were another peculiar part of the Babylonian culture. For them, women of childbearing age were sold on the principle of "who will give the highest price". Knowledge of this reached this time again thanks to Herodotus, which described in detail how these markets worked.
All women sat in a circle and in turn got up, leaving to the center, after which people in the audience began to bet on her on the principle of auction. Given everything else that is known about the Babylonian sexual culture, it was most likely a real market, where men bought wives they wanted.
8. Eyes for the eyes
Codex Hammurapi became known for the basic general rule of the eye. It clearly indicates what punishments are fair and correct, for what violations and misdemeans. Of course, sex was not an exception to this ... But sometimes the local ideas about what the "eye for the eyes" was, to put it mildly, unusual.
In a similar legal text, dating from the times of the ancient Babylon, is approved by the following: if a person is the father of the virgin, and the other man slept with his daughter, then his father is allowed to do with his wife of this man that he is pleased with him, right up to the murder.
However, in the Hammurapi Code, it is said about the same situation that a man who has led to the virgin, the father has the right to kill, and the woman should be spare.
9. Adultery
Given the atmosphere of universal promiscuity, amazing is that the adultery has had a high price in Babylon. For such a crime, the death penalty was envisaged, and the wife caught "on the hot," it was necessary to drown together with her lover, tied by the same rope. However, if a deceived husband wanted to spare his wife, in this case the law provided for mercy for the lover. If the husband who decided to spare his wife, killed the man with whom she slept, was executed and his.
10. Homosexuality
As in most other crops on Earth to the Judeo-Christian domination, which occurred after Konstantin made Christianity from the official religion of ancient Rome, Babylonians were so good for homosexuality and, like the ancient Greeks, practiced it openly and freely. However, they had certain homosexual deeds, which were believed to be due to failure (and were those who were believed to bring good luck).
Scientists have established that Babylonian men sometimes loved the role of women in sex, and moreover, even used heterosexual anal sex as a form of contraception (therefore, it is also possible that homosexuality served as an alternative to the same goal - avoiding pregnancy). In any case, Babylonians were extremely strange "friki" for today's standards in many ways.
