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  History US Special - The Turin Erotic Papyrus; Bettany is a contributing expert. #International #InternationalSeries #SexInTheAncientWorld https://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/single-post/2010/05/01/sex-in-the-ancient-world https://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/single-post/2010/05/01/sex-in-the-ancient-world Sex and Sexuality in Ancient - Bettany Hughes     Bettany Hughes Bettany Mary Hughes   OBE   FSA  (born May 1967) [1] [2]  is an English historian, author and broadcaster, specialising in  classical history . Her published books cover classical antiquity and myth, and the history of  Istanbul . She is active in efforts to encourage the teaching of the  classics  in UK state schools. Hughes was appointed  OBE  in 2019. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION [ EDIT ] Hughes grew up in  West London . [3]  She is the daughter of actors  Peter  and Erica Hughes, and the sister of the cricketer and journalist  Simon Hugh...

Sex In The Ancient World

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  History US Special - The Turin Erotic Papyrus; Bettany is a contributing expert. #International #InternationalSeries #SexInTheAncientWorld https://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/single-post/2010/05/01/sex-in-the-ancient-world https://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/single-post/2010/05/01/sex-in-the-ancient-world Sex and Sexuality in Ancient - Bettany Hughes     Bettany Hughes Bettany Mary Hughes   OBE   FSA  (born May 1967) [1] [2]  is an English historian, author and broadcaster, specialising in  classical history . Her published books cover classical antiquity and myth, and the history of  Istanbul . She is active in efforts to encourage the teaching of the  classics  in UK state schools. Hughes was appointed  OBE  in 2019. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION [ EDIT ] Hughes grew up in  West London . [3]  She is the daughter of actors  Peter  and Erica Hughes, and the sister of the cricketer and journalist  Simon Hugh...

There is a way to recast sexual relations – and it all starts with Venus This article is more than 5 years oldBettany Hughes

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  V enus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life story across 5,000 years and you chart the evolution of our conflicted relationship with sex and with the female body. Now the  Weinstein floodgates  are open, root and branch reform is, rightly, demanded. But to address a problem, you have to understand its size, its shape and its provenance. Over the last decade I’ve been investigating Venus – the influential incarnation of human desire and beauty across millennia – to help explain the state we’re in: why we deal with lust, love, sexuality, sexual transgression and the female form the way we do. It’s about finding the roots of our prejudice, because once you understand the depth of a problem, you can better deal with it. With a track record spanning 50 centuries, Venus is a barometer of sexual mores and sexual prejudice. Her narrative also, arguably, offers a solution to t...