Albert also claimed that people who have frequent sex are followed around by dogs. This is because “dogs love smells and run after cadavers,” he wrote, “and the body of a person who has a great deal of intercourse approaches the condition of a cadaver because of all the rotten semen.”
Kitap: A Mind of Its Own A Cultural History of the Penis
Nudity Bakış Açısının Değişimi
The nude was invented by the Greeks. Christianity brought back the naked.
Testify Etimoloji
Though few realize it, least of all in the courtroom, this idea of swearing a sacred oath by “placing a hand under one’s thigh” (on or near the testicles) survives today—nearly four thousand years later—in the word “testify.”
Meryem Niye Temiz Görülüyor?
In a culture where the Virgin symbolized all that was pure, the penis stood for all that was evil. What defined Mary’s sanctity was her lack of contact with a penis.