Ancient Egyptian Sexuality

Revel in pleasure while your life endures
And deck your head with myrrh. Be richly clad In white and perfumed linen; like the gods Anointed be; and never weary grow  In eager quest of what your heard desires - Do as it prompts you...

  -- Lay of the Harpist
 
Sexuality in ancient Egypt was open, untainted by guilt. Sex was an important part of life - from birth to death and rebirth. Singles and married couples made love. The gods themselves were earthy enough to copulate. The Egyptians even believed in sex in the afterlife. Sex was not taboo... Even the Egyptian religion was filled with tales of adultery, incest, homosexuality and masturbation... with hints of necrophilia! Masculinity and femininity itself were strongly linked with the ability to conceive and bear children...