HUMOUR: 10 Sexual Taboo's Recorded as Experiences in the Bible

The bible is known primarily for being a book and having content dedicated to Christianity and morals. However it would seem to also contain a lot about sex. Here are the 10 most abnormal sexual experiences contained in the bible. When you read this, you'll conclude that there really is nothing new under the sun.

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INCEST: LOT’S BIOLOGICAL DAUGHTERS HAVE SEX WITH HIM

A man named Lot and his two unmarried daughters (who are unnamed in the passage) live alone in an isolated mountain. His former life and wealth and family members have unfortunately been destroyed and killed in a fire that consumed the city he previously resided in, named Sodom. Lot at this time has lost a lot of his confidence and zest for interacting with people and life, and would seem to be depressed.

Sodom before its destruction had been notorious for its debauchery. The word “sodomy” used to describe the act of a man putting his penis into another person’s, especially another man’s anus is coined from this ancient biblical city.

In time, Lot’s two daughters become concerned that if things continued the way they were Lot would die without preserving his “seed”, referring to a male son born to him to continue his genealogy after he died. They decide to help preserve his seed by having sex with him.

They do not talk to him about it directly but achieve their aims by making their father Lot drunk two nights in a row, and taking turns in having sex with him in this drunken state, consequently getting pregnant and giving birth to two boys, one each.

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INCEST: JUDAH HAS SEX WITH HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, TAMAR

A man named Judah has three sons named Er, Onan and Shelah, respectively. When his first son, Er, reaches the acceptable age of getting married Judah chooses a bride for him named Tamar.Unfortunately, while the marriage is still young, but after Onan, Judah’s second son, reaches the culturally acceptable age of marriage, Er dies.

According to tradition, Judah asks Onan, Er’s younger brother to have sex with Tamar and produce a child.Onan knows that, because of cultural practices, whatever offspring produced by his sexual liaisons with Tamar would not be considered his but his dead brother’s, so whenever he had sexual intercourse with Tamar and felt himself about to ejaculate his semen, he performed coitus interuptus, spilling his semen on the ground.

Not long after his involvement with Tamar, Onan died as well.

Judah, Tamar’s father-in-law became afraid now that two of his sons had died while being sexually associated with Tamar, and he was unwilling to let Shelah his last son become husband to Tamar, so he refused to let her have him on the guise that Shelah had not become a man according to culture. He told Tamar to return to her father’s home and remain a widow until Shelah grew up.

A long time after all these events Judah’s wife, and mother of Er, Shelah and Onan, died, and Judah left his residential town to go visit his father-in-law in another town called Timnath. Tamar hears about this and also leaves her own father’s house, which was in the same town were Judah lived and dashes to Timnath as well.

When she reached Timnath, Tamar removed her widow’s gown from off her (widows were mandated to put on a specific type of clothing in those times) and sat in an open place on the way to Judah’s father-in-law’s house. She then veiled her face, which was typical of prostitutes in those times.

When Judah saw her, he approached her and sought her sexual services.Tamar asked Judah how he intended to pay for these services, and he promises he will send her a kid from his flock of sheep later on. As guarantee, she requested that he give her his ring, his bracelets, and his staff (long stick used by cattle herders, and also a cultural symbol in those times), and he agreed.

Judah then has sexual intercourse with her and ejaculates his semen into her. In the process, she conceived.

Tamar eventually gave birth to twins, both boys.

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INCEST: ABSALOM HAS SEX WITH HIS FATHER, DAVID’S, CONCUBINES 

Absalom, King David’s son, led a rebellion against King David, a king of ancient Israel, intending to unseat him from power and become king himself, as well as kill King David. As Absalom’s army advanced toward the capital city, Jerusalem, King David and his allies fled the palace and the city intending to re-plan their next course of action and bolster their forces to retake it, elsewhere.

A man named Ahitophel, a former adviser to King David who had defected to Absalom, sensed that despite Absalom’s army’s momentum at that moment, it would wane in the next few days because Absalom,after all, was King David’s son and his armies would become wary of giving him their maximum support because if this coup failed, it was entirely likely that Absalom’s life would be spared while theirs and possibly their families as well would be taken. On reaching the deserted palace, Ahitophel told Absalom to have sex with the few concubines King David left behind in the palace to make his army and supporters more certain that he would not be forgiven if he lost in his cause because a child having sexual relations with his father’s lover or wife was considered taboo, and Absalom agreed.

A mat was then spread on the roof of the palace, and the concubines were presented to Absalom in full view of the public and he had sex with every one of them, right on the roof.

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INCEST AND RAPE: AMNON RAPES HIS HALF-SISTER, TAMAR

Amnon and Tamar were both children of King David, but from different mothers.They are step-siblings.

Tamar is described in the text as being a very beautiful young lady.

Amnon became infatuated with Tamar, and remained so for a long time, and this began to affect his health because he realized he could not do anything about it because Tamar was both a virgin, as well as his sister.

His cousin and friend Jonadab noticed Amnon’s mental anguish. He also noticed that Amnon had begun to lose weight. He asks Amnon to tell him what is troubling him, and Amnon eventually confided in him.

Jonadab then created a plan for Amnon. He told Amnon to lie on his bed and pretend to be critically ill, and when King David his father came over to see him to tell him that he would like Tamar to come to his home and prepare a meal for him in his presence so that he would eat it.

The plan worked.

When Tamar came to Amnon’s house she got busy with making cakes for Amnon, in the presence of certain other unnamed people as well as Amnon. When she finished, she offered them to Amnon but he refused them.

Amnon then told everyone in the room to leave the house. When they were all gone, he asked Tamar to bring the cakes to him once more, so that he would eat out of her hand, and she did. When she was near enough, he reached out and grabbed her, telling her, in an exasperated manner, to have sexual intercourse with him. She respectfully but firmly refused, reminding him how rape was frowned at in Israel and how he would be ostracized, and how if she was raped she would be shamed and her marital value lowered. She told him to speak to their father King David and ask his permission for them to be married to each other. Amnon, however refused to listen.

There ensued some physical tussle, but because Amnon is much stronger than Tamar, he overpowered her and raped her.

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RAPE: SHECHEM RAPES DINAH, JACOB’S DAUGHTER

A man named Jacob moves with his entire family and property to a location in the Middle East within the modern nations of Israel and Jordan.

In this area, there was no central government or kingdom, but there was a prominent group of people living in the area, a tribe known as the Hivites.

Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, decided to go socialize with other women of the land in the area where the Hivites territory encompassed.

A man named Shechem, the son of Hamor who was a designated leader of the Hivites, saw Dinah and forcefully took her to a location and raped her.

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RAPE BY A PUBLIC FIGURE: KING DAVID RAPES BATHSHEBA, THE WIFE OF URIAH

The army of Israel was at this time engaged in war in foreign territory. King David decided not to accompany the army in its campaign but remained in the palace.

While strolling atop his palace walls (they were very large in those days, so much that horses could ride on them), he looked down below outside the palace and saw a woman bathing herself (most probably, bathrooms were adjoined to the main house but not part of it and had no roofing in those times). She is described as a very attractive woman. King David becomes overcome with lust and asked his servants to find out the identity of the woman. He found out that her name was Bathsheba, and that she was the wife of a soldier in his army,a man named Uriah who was currently engaged in the army’s campaign.

King David summoned Bathsheba to the palace. When she comes he rapes her, though she offers no resistance. After that, she returns to her house

After a short while, Bathsheba woman discovers that she is pregnant and manages to notify King David.

King David then sends a message to the commander of the army, asking him to send Bathsheba’s husband Uriah back to the kingdom and to the palace on official duty.

When Uriah arrives, King David demands of him the progress of the war and how the army was faring. He then gives him the rest of the day off and allows him to go to his house, expecting him to have sex with Bathsheba, and trying to pass on the pregnancy as his. However, Uriah does not go to his house but sleeps within the vicinity of the palace.

The next day King David finds out that Uriah did not return to his home and his wife the night before and asks him why. Uriah tells him that his mind is in the frame of war, and that it would amount to indiscipline and be morally wrong to go home to eat and drink and have sex with his wife. David then asks Uriah to stay in the palace for the day, and that the following day he would be allowed to return to the war front. This time he prepares a feast and makes Uriah drink until he is drunk, then he lets him go.

Uriah still does not go to his own house, but voluntarily sleeps within the palace that night as well.

The next day King David writes a letter to the commander of the army and sends it through Uriah. In the letter he orders him to make sure Uriah fights in an area where the fiercest fighting is during the war, so that he would be killed. The commander carries out King David’s orders and Uriah is killed.

After the customary grieving period, King David makes Bathsheba his wife, though they child they produced eventually died not long after its birth.

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GANG RAPE: RAPE OF A MAN’S CONCUBINE BY MULTIPLE OTHER MEN

A certain man’s concubine commits adultery, and runs away from her master to her own father’s house and remains there for four months.

When her master’s anger subsided he forgave her, and decided to go and get her back from her father’s house.

On his way back after collecting her, his convoy became stranded in the evening while he had not reached his own city, so he needed a place to lodge for the night before continuing his journey the next day. In a nearby city,he was unable to find a lodging place. In the end, luckily, an elderly man and invited the man and his convoy to rest the night in his own house.

Very late at night certain men gathered at the door of the elderly man’s house, beating the door, and demanding that the elderly man send his guest, specifically the master of the concubine, out to them so that they could have sexual intercourse with him.

The elderly man refused. He offered them his own virgin daughter and the man’s concubine in the Levite’s stead. The men refused the offer. Finally, the master of the concubine stepped out of the house, taking his concubine along with him but sparing the elderly man’s daughter. He left his concubine outside and returned into the house.

The men outside then proceeded to rape the concubine all through the night. When the sun began to rise in the morning, they finally let her go.

The concubine limped weakly to the door of the elderly man’s house where her master was and fell at the door. When her master opened the door and saw her lying there, he called out to her but she did not respond. Finally, he determined that she had died.

Her master then takes her corpse along with him back to his own home. When he arrived, he divided her body, with her bones, into twelve places, and sent them to the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel. On account of this a meeting was called involving prominent members of each tribe, and also an army of four hundred thousand men who are skilled in handling swords was raised. The delegation sent a message to the tribe of Benjamin, the tribe in which the city where the gang rape occurred was located, asking them to deliver the men that had committed the rape crime for justice and death. The tribe of Benjamin refused. In the end there is a war between the other eleven tribes and the tribe of Benjamin, and Benjamin is defeated and that city destroyed, with its majority of its men and women killed and the city set ablaze.

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WAR CRIME: THE RAPE OF JEWISH WOMEN BY THE BABYLONIAN ARMY

At this time the kingdom of Judah and its capital Jerusalem were a tribute state to the much more powerful kingdom of Babylon.

However, the king of Judah, King Zedekiah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon by refusing to continue paying tribute, as well as by changing alliances to Egypt.

Consequently, Nebuchadnezzar and the entire Babylonian army marched out against Jerusalem. Jerusalem was a city surrounded by a thick wall which served as a defense against intruders. The Babylonian army could not immediately enter the city, so they laid siege to it. They set up ladders and built ramps and towers all around it.

After four months of the siege, there was not any food left in the city. Inhuman things began to occur such as mothers eating their own children. The Babylonian army, eventually, successfully broke through the city walls.

Then the atrocities began: the Babylonian army raped the women of Judah on a large scale in the streets. They burned all economic buildings, the palace and the temple. They destroyed the entire wall. Finally,they took away the majority of the people who remained alive as exiles into Babylon.

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TABOO: JACOB SLEEPS WITH TWO SISTERS

Jacob was Laban’s nephew and wanted to marry Laban’s younger daughter, Rachael.

Jacob and Laban reached an agreement in which Jacob would marry Rachael, in exchange of seven years of labor tending to Laban’s livestock, which would serve as Jacob’s dowry payment. Jacob, as agreed, served Laban for seven years, at the end of which he demanded his right be married to Rachael. Laban then organized a marriage feast in commemoration of their union.

In the evening, at the end of the seven-day feast, Laban brought his elder daughter, Leah, to Jacob’s tent instead of Rachael. The room would seem to be poorly lit and Jacob somewhat drunk from partaking in the feast, because he did not recognize her. Leah and Rachael also would seem to have had similar body structures. Jacob had sexual intercourse with Leah that night.

The next morning, Jacob discovered the fraud and was furious with Laban. Laban explained to Jacob that it was not customary in that society for the younger daughter to be married off before the elder. Laban told Jacob to continue with Leah and observe the weekly customary rites, which was sort of like a honeymoon period, after which he would give Rachael to be Jacob’s wife as well in exchange for Jacob serving with him another seven years.

At the end of the seven day honeymoon with Leah, Laban gave Jacob Rachael to be his wife and Jacob had sexual intercourse with Rachael as well.

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COERCED INTERCOURSE ON ACCOUNT OF SLAVERY: EGYPTIANS HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH FEMALE HEBREW SLAVES

The Hebrew people at this time were slaves in Egypt, and had been in bondage as slaves for 430 years, mostly exploited for their labor by their Egyptian masters. They also endured brutal and oppressive laws.

Owing to divine intervention as contained in the text, suddenly they were finally being released by the Egyptians from their slavery and were mandated to leave Egypt in a single day.

A mixed multitude, implying a mixed race of people, also left with them. However, Hebrew families kept strict chronological records of their genealogy which was derived from the paternity of the offspring, and these mixed race people were not included in these genealogies.

These mixed race of people were the outcome of sexual relationships between Egyptian men and Hebrew women. Since the passage describes their numerical value as being a multitude, we understand that these sexual relationships were prevalent. These mixed race people also had more affinity with the freed Hebrew’s despite their not being included in the genealogies implying that they were not accepted by the Egyptian society as full Egyptians as well. These sexual relationships between Egyptian men and Israeli women could not have occurred completely with free will of Israeli women and may have included rape as well as other means of coercion, typical of imbalanced relationships between races as this based on slavery.

 

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