Sex is a basic human need, common to all people at all times. It is evident that the ancient Egyptians were real human beings, not only a people who built massive pyramids and made mummies of their dead. The ancient Egyptians had a rich and varied sexual life, which they found an opportunity to describe in words and pictures.
As in the other early primitive civilizations, erotic matters were of prime importance and became an integral part of life. In Pharaonic times, the Egyptians described impotence and recorded several methods to increase the sexual power.
In the present paper, we will shed light on some aspects of the sexual life in ancient Egypt that may be interesting to the urologists, including ancient Egyptian concepts of sex and erotic matters, their own way of treatment of impotence and Min, the Egyptian fertility God.
We will talk about sex with the Pharaohs, in successive articles
Sometimes given as either the son or consort of Isis. He was depicted in human form with an erect penis. He generally held a flail in his raised right hand and wore a crown surmounted by two tall plumes. Min was pre-eminently a god of male sexuality, and in the New Kingdom (1567–1085 BC) he was honored in the coronation rites of the pharaohs to ensure their sexual vigor and the production of a male heir. The ‘White Bull’ appears to have been sacred to him, as was a type of lettuce that bore a resemblance to an erect penis and had a white sap that resembled semen .
After some preparation, some purification, the magic words were spoken, some rites were performed, and all was over. In many cases this was probably enough for the patient who was under great nervous tension to feel suddenly improved or even cured. Siegerist8 added that ‘we all have seen miracle cures since there is still a great deal of magic religious medicine in our present Western World and our knowledge of psychiatry makes it possible for us to understand the psychological processes involved much better than in the past’. It may be astonishing that at present time some cases of psychogenic impotence are improved by the ‘secret acts’ of these laymen physicians, still found in Egypt, in spite of the failure of treatment by professors of modern westernized psychiatry!.Amusingly enough that the Egyptians still use the term ‘secret diseases’ instead of ‘venereal diseases’.
Siegerist described the way in which the laymen physicians in ancient Egypt used magical spells to affect the sexual power of their clients.
A disease of the male genital organ caused by an enemy, man or spirit, was to be thrown back to its author by having a mythological incantation made of cake, inscribed with the name of the enemy, his father's name and his mother's name. To be put in the midst of fat meat, to be given to the cat. The magician came or the patient was brought to him.
Sometimes given as either the son or consort of Isis. He was depicted in human form with an erect penis. He generally held a flail in his raised right hand and wore a crown surmounted by two tall plumes. Min was pre-eminently a god of male sexuality, and in the New Kingdom (1567–1085 BC) he was honored in the coronation rites of the pharaohs to ensure their sexual vigor and the production of a male heir. The ‘White Bull’ appears to have been sacred to him, as was a type of lettuce that bore a resemblance to an erect penis and had a white sap that resembled semen .
After some preparation, some purification, the magic words were spoken, some rites were performed, and all was over. In many cases this was probably enough for the patient who was under great nervous tension to feel suddenly improved or even cured. Siegerist8 added that ‘we all have seen miracle cures since there is still a great deal of magic religious medicine in our present Western World and our knowledge of psychiatry makes it possible for us to understand the psychological processes involved much better than in the past’. It may be astonishing that at present time some cases of psychogenic impotence are improved by the ‘secret acts’ of these laymen physicians, still found in Egypt, in spite of the failure of treatment by professors of modern westernized psychiatry!.Amusingly enough that the Egyptians still use the term ‘secret diseases’ instead of ‘venereal diseases’.
Siegerist described the way in which the laymen physicians in ancient Egypt used magical spells to affect the sexual power of their clients.
A disease of the male genital organ caused by an enemy, man or spirit, was to be thrown back to its author by having a mythological incantation made of cake, inscribed with the name of the enemy, his father's name and his mother's name. To be put in the midst of fat meat, to be given to the cat. The magician came or the patient was brought to him.
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