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Erect penises and vulvas adorn the scenes on the walls of temples and are even key components to some deities. Hethert is known as the Lady of the Vulva and Min's main feature in art is His erect phallus. In Mut's temple, Aset or Hethert are syncretized with Mut for the more sexual aspects of fertility or being a wife. Mut and Amun were said in some sources to have adopted Khonsu. Sex symbolized the fertility of the land like in the myth of Aset bringing the dead Wesir to life and to conceive an heir. She used magic and sex to do this. Aset is also the midwife to expectant mothers. Giving birth is one of the end results of sex for heterosexual couples. The other is sexual satisfaction physically and emotionally. Nisut Hatshepsut is even drawn on a temple wall having sex.

The only form of sex that was forbidden to the ancient Egyptians was expressed in one of the "42 Negative Confessions" which were priestly purifications. Purification 27, states, "I have not copulated with a boy". This is not against homosexuality, but it is against pedophilia.

Sex is about the joining of two people's in an intimate way. Sex is the way most species procreate. Sex is not to be used as a weapon. But most of all, sex is not meant to be hidden in the shadows free from any scrutiny or discussion. Sex is not taboo.

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