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Zariadris
Zariadris
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The Tower
May 17, 2009, 18:31
tjj wrote:
[quote="moss"]Well as one who trogs through the news most days, I read she was a pornographic piece of neckware, that presumably males wore beneath their 'cloaks' on a string, she had'nt got a head but had two rings for attachment....

Moss mentions reading that the figurine was a piece of pornographic neckware, which again seems to throw a very 'last century' approach to the matter. Pornography surely is a modern concept where the human body (usually female, though certainly not exclusively) is exploited for sexual titillation. I can't get my head round 'hunter-gatherer' clans being into pornography somehow.



Exactly. Think about how ubiquitous phallic symbols were as well. I don't think there is any feminist vs. misogynist dynamic at play here. Consciously or not, we're just projecting our own issues of sexual politics. I think our figurine represents something positive, beneficent, life-engendering, magical, and divine.
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