“‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with any kind of animal.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’-Deuteronomy 27:21
Verse 21 of Deuteronomy 27 makes it clear that bestiality (having sex with animals) is a big no-no.
You might think this practice is strange as all hell…especially given all the off-color and vulgar jokes that have been created over the years revolving around this topic.
Well think again.
This is gonna blow your mind but having sex with animals was actually quite common in ancient times (especially out in the countryside areas).
As a matter of fact, according to the ancient law books of the Hittites, sex was allowed with some animals but prohibited with others.
That’s right.
A part of their law books was actually a menu of what animals it was okay to do the horizontal boogie-woogie with and what animals were off limits.
When we look at all of the pagan religions of the ancient Middle East, why do you think we encounter all of these half human and half animal gods and goddesses?
Also, when we delve into Greek mythology, we’ll find similar half-breed creatures that apparently were the result of sex between humans and animals or between gods and animals.
Again, this activity was considered acceptable in most societies (I’m NOT kidding).
However, this perversity was OUTLAWED in every circumstance among the Hebrews.
This reminds me of a story I was told by an Israeli (an Orthodox Jew actually) who I was helping sell imitation jewelry out on the streets of Tokyo about 16 years ago (back in my wild days).
He was recounting a story from his days in the military.
One afternoon while keeping watch over his assigned territory, he was scouring the landscape with his high-powered binoculars for any strange activity when he caught something most peculiar.
He turned up the power on his lenses to get a closer look and to his shock…
…he saw an Arab having sex with a sheep.
He concluded his story by saying “…and that’s why HASHEM does not want us mixing with the GOYIM (gentiles)”.
Man, I’ll never forget that story.
Onward.
Do you wanna know where we find the first God-ordained pattern outlawing bestiality?
You don’t have to look any further than the first chapters of the Book of Genesis when God created Adam and Eve.
That’s right.
Adam and Eve is the God-ordained “pattern” for proper human sexuality and marriage unions.
Think about it.
Before Eve came on the scene, Adam had a whole jungle of animals he could have gotten down and dirty with had he wanted to.
Yet none of them were suitable for him.
That’s why the Lord created from Adam’s own flesh an appropriate sexual partner for him.
Now don’t misunderstand me here.
It’s not like God lined up all of the animals in front of Adam and then said something like, “Hey, would you like to have sex with that attractive giraffe over there?” and Adam refused.
Heck no, rather one of the important purposes of the Genesis narrative is to make it crystal clear to us that mankind is absolutely NOT to come into sexual union with beings or creatures lesser than us.
The only acceptable practice is a man having sex with a woman.
That’s it.
I’m just flabbergasted how this lesson has to be drilled into our heads over and over again.
In distinction to the medieval European views that conceived Muslim girls as victimized but highly effective by means
of their charms and deceit, through the era of European colonialism, the “imaginary harem” came to represent what Orientalist scholars saw as an abased and subjugated
standing of girls in the Islamic civilization. A distinct, imaginary vision of the harem emerged within the West beginning from the seventeenth
century when Europeans became conscious of Muslim harems housing
numerous ladies. Where this isn’t the case, and the royal wives
do dwell in the harems in isolation, they are inclined to
have a ritual significance of their kingdoms’ traditions.
However, it seems to have develop into more common and strict after the Islamic
conquests. The whole society became extra gender segregated after the Muslim conquests.
In Bengal, for instance, where men and women had previously labored collectively reaping,
men began to do the reaping alone and women have been relegated to
the extra home process of husking. The Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini had six wives, for instance, and members of the Nigerian chieftaincy system have traditionally had as many as three hundred of them.
Women in rural areas, the place the suicide rate for
girls was three to 4 instances higher than for men,
have been especially vulnerable.