Has any egyptologist ever found a story relating to sexual technique? I imagine that the egyptians were quite fascinated by sex-did they leave any explicit descriptions of techniques?
There was just something on The History Channel or National Geographic about this. There’s a sizable erotic section of the Turin Papyrus complete with illustrations of sex positions.
Did any of those illustrations have them “walking like Egyptians” while in The Act?
I don’t think Mrs. dhkendall would go for that too well …
Perhaps the Wikipedia is incomplete, but none of the three items listed here sounds like it would reasonably include such a thing.
It also says “any of the collection’ found in a particular museum in Turin Italy, which"includes”. which does not mean they are the “only” papyrii they own.:dubious:
http://prophetess.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/eros_in_egypt.htm
The most erotically graphic—some would say pornographic—work of Egyptian art is the so-called Turin Erotic Papyrus (Papyrus 55001), now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy. Painted in the Ramesside period (1292-1075 B.C.E.), the severely damaged papyrus has not been treated well by time and the elements.(1) It consists of a continuous series of vignettes drawn on a papyrus scroll about 8.5 feet long and 10 inches high. The first third of the scroll (reading from right to left) shows animals and birds carrying out various human tasks. The rest consists of explicit depictions of sexual acts.
The erotic section of the Turin papyrus comprises 12 successive vignettes. In each vignette a grotesquely aroused, unkempt man has sexual relations with an attractive young woman. The woman, while virtually naked, is decidedly more elegant than her partner. The sexual positions are varied and extremely vivid. One vignette goes so far as to place the woman in a chariot with the man standing on the ground behind it (and her), creating an especially improbable scene. So graphic are these images that a recent commentator, the Swiss Egyptologist Joseph Omlin, felt compelled to resort to Latin to describe the activities involved.
I don’t know if that’s a reliable cite or not, I just quickly googled it.
That’s the one that was described in the History Channel documentary. Episode info.
