# Lascivious Bible Passages

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**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lascivious-bible-passages/978365 "2023-01-17T20:06:09Z")
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I know the donkeys and their members in Ezekiel, and the deal with Lot’s daughters in Genesis, and of course there’s the Song of Solomon, but are there any other more or less lascivious passages in the Bible? Things along the lines of those mentioned?

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King David and Bathsheba

Also:

Romans 1:27,: In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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Genesis  
34 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the region. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force. 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”

(NRSV)

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Samson and Delilah

Angel telling Mary what God had planned for her

Whore of Babylon/ Great whore, (Rev17)

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At the end of Exodus, isn’t there a mention of old Moses still being able to get it up?

~VOW

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The baby race between Leah and Rachel is hilarious. Especially the mandrake part.

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I can’t remember all the details, but the daughters of Noah making him drunk to get him to sleep with them.

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There’s that bit in Exodus where the LORD moons Moses.

> [@Exodus 33:21-23](#):
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> And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock. And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

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That’s Lot, not Noah.

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Ouch, sorry, I misremembered. It’s been some time since I’ve last read Genesis.

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> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> I can’t remember all the details, but the daughters of Noah making him drunk to get him to sleep with them.

It’s been my experience with guys that it’s usually the other way around. LOL

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Noah’s scandal?

Genesis 9 (NIV)  
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%209%3A20-24&version=NIV#fen-NIV-226a)] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

Some Talmudic scholars take “saw his father naked” as a euphemistic way of saying “had sex with his father”. Not the majority opinion, but it’s there.

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Noah’s scandal?

Yes, that’s the story which I have confused with that of Lot and his daughters. Thanks.

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Onan in Genesis 38…

_8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”_

_9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother._

_10 And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also._

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Some Talmudic scholars take “saw his father naked” as a euphemistic way of saying “had sex with his father”. Not the majority opinion, but it’s there.

Personally, I think that he just did the fratboy thing of giving him unwanted body art with a Sharpie, or whatever the deluvian equivalent was. People are people.

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Hybrid children created:

Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
