Sex in Ancient Egypt

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How did the Ancient Egyptians differ from us? In many ways they did, but in terms of sexuality, perhaps not so much.

As we’ll find out, they were certainly partial to a filthy poem.

Taking us on a journey back to this ancient world is Egyptologist Sarah Parcak. Amongst other things, she talks us through the Turin Papyrus - possibly the oldest depiction of human sexuality we have.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:55.0	Phew! And now we've managed to get through that on with the show! The year is 11.50 BC and we are in Egypt. We are having a bit of a nosy around our
1:12.2	mate's house while he's off getting us a beer.
1:15.0	He's got a load of papyrus's on the table in front of us, a yellowishy material, kind of similar to thick paper. Most of the sheets have hieroglyphs on and they're going on about you kind of everyday humdrum things, but at the very bottom of the pile is a very different looking papyrus.
1:35.0	It has images of cats and dogs and they're all wearing human clothes and parroting human behavior.
1:41.0	I mean it's kind of cute, it's a bit weird but cute. We pick it up to have a closer look,
1:47.3	revealing the other side of the papyrus, which is filled with images of people having sex in all kinds of different positions
1:57.0	and they look like what how do I put this delicately they don't look like
2:02.0	stereotypical sex gods.
2:04.0	They're pop-bellied, they have thinning hair, but they do have gigantic penises.
2:10.0	What the hell is this? Well,wixters we have stumbled upon the erotic
2:17.0	Turin papyrus oh yeah and today we're going to be talking all about it
2:22.2	what do these images tell us about And today we're going to be talking all about it.
2:22.8	What do these images tell us about sex in ancient Egypt?
2:26.7	What were the rules around marriage and divorce at the time?
2:29.4	Was there really a god who created himself through masturbation. Well, we are about to slide between the Egyptian
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