Greek Sex

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The overarching theme I’ve seen throughout all of the videos of world history is one of misogyny. From the Greek’s belief that homosexual sex created a better emotional attachment, the age old idea that women having sex before marriage ruined them, the use of sexual graffiti to demean the woman pharaoh, to the sale and abuse of young girls all over the world. Humanity has always enjoyed having sex, but at the same time has always demonized the sexual thoughts, wants and feelings, especially for women.
While the Greeks were more open to non-conventional sex that cultures before or since, they still had a lot of rules and social norms surrounding it that looked down on the passive partner, the genitals themselves, and any women who might have enjoyed her sexuality. Romans looked down on homosexuality all together. And of course in both cultures only freeborn men had say in sexual situations, just like the majority of the knowledge we have from back then is also from them.
Before this I wasn’t aware that Egyptian people had to have sex in their lifetimes to be able to be reborn,
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A 13 year old hasn’t developed good critical thinking skills, especially as this one probably learned bad coping skills from her friends she was drinking and smoking cigarettes with. Even ignoring all that, a person’s victimization is never their fault, especially if the person victimizing and trafficking them is threatening to kill them if they don’t behave!
There needs to be so much more education on all sides of this issue, from the girls at risk for this, the men who use them, the law enforcement agencies that need to keep them safe, the criminal justice system workers who process these children through the system, the politicians who have blindly ignored this problem, to the general public for vilifies these children for allowing themselves to be

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