Vox
US · 1 hrs ago
Want to improve your sex life? Look to religion.
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!”
No, that isn’t the latest Heated Rivalry fanfiction — it’s the opening line of a 2,000-year-old erotic poem. Yes, in the middle of the Hebrew Bible, a text that has so often been weaponized to shame sexual desire, there is a collection of straight-up filth:
“I arose to open to my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.”
Girl. Tell me more…
As a gay kid growing up in the 1990s,…
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