Historical Attestation

[minoanmiss]

I wonder how old is the earliest historical record we have of people making it a point to talk about the sex life of a woman in politics in order to crowd out discussing her accomplishments. It certainly was a Thing by Hatshepsut's time so that's 3500 BP.

*sigh* Guess what inspired this post.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Certainly a thing in Assyria and also Babylon.

[lunabee34]

It's a mysterious mystery. :(

[lynnenne]

And yet Trump can be a fucking rapist and they'll still elect him.

[ride_4ever]

Your apropos icon is so apropos.

[bikergeek]

Yep. By the so called "law and order" party.

[princessofgeeks]

Not a prize fight, a street fight.

Gotta keep breathing.

[acelightning73]

I read somewhere that the ruins in Alexandria have a plaque on them, "Here used to be the Great Library. It was destroyed by Alexander the Great, and partially restored by Phryne the Whore (a wealthy courtesan who helped finance the reconstruction of the Library)".

And there are quite a few modern Country songs from the point of view of a young woman who believed the lies some pussy-grabbing con artist told her, and became the Local Bad Girl because that's all she knew how to do. That's why they call prostitution "the world's oldest profession". Some poor girl is starving, and a man offers her a loaf of bread for a blow job, and she's a filthy whore, and he's just a businessman. (Why do humans care so much about what other people do with their bits? Mind your own bits, not mine.)

And the ancient Egyptians were required to have incestuous relationships within the royal family, to keep the bloodlines pure.