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ALL IN ONE PLACE: The Cult of Aphrodite, Mythology of Aphrodite, Transgender Aphrodite

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Aphrodite and the Goddess of Marriages and Unions

"i think that it's the stycodomy of how women are able to have power and what they have to give up," she says. "The only way women didn't have to work through men, in a way, was if they were virgin priestesses." The goddess Aphrodite had agency over her own body but could also drive mortals wild with unholy lust.

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