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Amaros -> RE: A crude question but a true curiosity.... (1/28/2007 8:03:21 AM)
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Anal sex is associated with submission, so there is a definite cultural bias - "Fucked in the ass" is synonomous with "being taken advantage of" for example. It may be more the act of penetration itself, being associated with the female role, and so the aversion to it is going to be exponentially proportional to how superstitiously machismo the local male culture happens to be. Among theists, it's typically associated with homosexuality, even if it's between a man and a woman, again, based on long standing atavistic superstition.
The bible only prohibits sex between men, it doesn't actually say anything about anal sex per se - the sin of Soddom and Gomorrah was idolatry, precipitated by an attempted homosexual rape. The whole business about sodomy is something that came about later, probobly adopted from the Romans, since early Christians were often gnostics, and practiced secret rites, which may have included Bonobo type orgying. In some gnostic mythologies, the resurrection of Lazarus was a gnostic initiation which included homosexual intercourse - Lazarus literally got his "eyes opened".
In truth, these superstitions probobly had some utility before the availability of modern hygenic practices and prophylactic measures in limiting pandemics of communicable diseases in densely populated areas, but it got a lot of impetus from the docterine of innate depravity through original sin, which seems to have instilled some pretty profound phobias about sexuality in general.
Deviod of this cultural baggage, it feels really good, and men have been doing it since time immemorial. It's almost always formally proscribed, and informally rampant - all it really boils down to is if you like it, do it, because these cultural superstitions are just that, abstractions, and it doesn't really mean anything, other than in strict terms of somatic stimulus - but a lot of people get off on the breaking taboos, dirtiness, etc., part of it, which can add a measure of psychological stimulus.
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