Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
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The Importance of Sexual Modesty in Christianity
In Asia, I hiked to the top of this mountain and there was a river bed and they had carved a thousand penises. When Christianity enters these areas, that's going to be tamped down because you're going to move against the polytheistic system that was there before. And then sexual modesty, you know, Egypt was a patriarchal like every other place. Unless you're in a hunter-gatherer situation where sex is not scarce,. Just read your Jared Diamond and everyone gets down there sexy time whenever they want with certain taboos installed.
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