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alike indicated in the practice of refusing to admit , as priests of God , any but those in full possession of the outward symbols of sexual virility . The old law was formulated in the days of Moses , thus : “ He that is wounded in the ...
alike indicated in the practice of refusing to admit , as priests of God , any but those in full possession of the outward symbols of sexual virility . The old law was formulated in the days of Moses , thus : “ He that is wounded in the ...
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It was to this belief that the practice was due of sleeping in the temples and having intercourse with the god , a practice to which I shall have occasion to refer when dealing with various phallic ceremonies in later chapters .
It was to this belief that the practice was due of sleeping in the temples and having intercourse with the god , a practice to which I shall have occasion to refer when dealing with various phallic ceremonies in later chapters .
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3453 ) says : " With regard to the practice of putting the hand under another's thigh , it seems plain that it grew out of the special sacredness attaching to the generative organ ; fruitfulness being of specially divine origin ...
3453 ) says : " With regard to the practice of putting the hand under another's thigh , it seems plain that it grew out of the special sacredness attaching to the generative organ ; fruitfulness being of specially divine origin ...
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Contents
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
THE PHALLIC FACTOR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY | 58 |
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| Title | Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day ... |
| Author | George Ryley Scott |
| Publisher | Mental Health Press, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 24 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 299 pages |
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