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  • Sex, the World History

  • Through Time, Religion and Culture
  • By: John R. Gregg
  • Narrated by: Florence Foster
  • Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Sex, the World History

By: John R. Gregg
Narrated by: Florence Foster
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Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion and Culture is a daring, deep historical-anthropological exploration. It is also a scathing condemnation of religion and its insistent control of sex.

The book explores society's complex relationship between spirituality and sexuality. The supremacy of the mother goddess throughout most of human existence, and her relatively recent fall, is detailed. Women's power, prestige, status, rank, position, and eminence are explored through cultures and time.

This audiobook shares original sources and explicit literary excerpts from throughout the world. Ancient and modern cultures are linked by historical and anthropological content, inviting the listener to experience various views of sexuality. Sex, The World History traces sexual attitudes from the transcendent to the bizarre throughout the world's cultures. Astonishing revelations, such as well-documented bisexuality of most human societies, are disclosed This book has been heralded by the LGBT community as "the first, gender honest history of sex". It is truly an encyclopedic tour of the sexuality of humankind.

©2019 John R. Gregg (P)2021 John R. Gregg
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A bit bias

Seems to just talk about how men are horrible and women are just victims. When they are definitely part of problems as well.

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a gateway book

this book opens an avenue into other branches and topics. it definitely got me more interested in theology.

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Very comprehensive, but biased and slanted

I was disappointed that a scholar would allow so much personal bias creep into a “factual” research book. Many stats were cherry picked and while others were ignored to make conform to the authors narrative. Exceptionally condescending, and hypocritical. Justifies pedophilia with boys (with a very small exception at the end). Overall pretty disappointed, although I did agree with much of the author’s take on early religious oppression. At the end it turned into a religion bashing session with the author letting all Christians Muslims and Jews know just how stupid they are to believe.

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