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In reply to the discussion: Egyptian Islamist parliment to enact law permitting husbands to have sex with dead wives as well as [View all]LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)24. Reading this brought back memories of sitting in Ancient Egyptian History class
and listening to the professor explain that some female mummies that had been examined showed evidence of decay prior to mummification. According to my prof, ancient Egyptian embalmers were notorious for being willing to have sex with the bodies of their female clients, so families took care if one of their younger, good-looking women died, to keep her body at home a few days so that the embalmers would be less willing to have sex with it.
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snagglepuss
Apr 2012
OP
CSM: Egypt 'necrophilia law'? Hooey, utter hooey (Don't believe everything you read on the Internet,
pampango
Apr 2012
#45
Does the DM need to remind people that Egypt is Islamist? Was this a particular sub-sect of Islam
patrice
Apr 2012
#2
No. Just needing a little more information, because I'm curious about whether they have
patrice
Apr 2012
#11
Making friends with PNAC in that agenda? That has to do with how political they are relative to
patrice
Apr 2012
#19
Well, Egypt had a lot of Muslims, but it prided itself -- before Mubarak was deposed--on being a
MADem
Apr 2012
#9
Yup, and what "pro-democracy revolutionaries" are bringing to Libya, Sudan, Morocco etc nt
riderinthestorm
Apr 2012
#7
cause i know having sex with a dead wife will maintain the family bond. i was afraid
seabeyond
Apr 2012
#5
It's not so much a right of necrophilia (though that is how it is enacted)
etherealtruth
Apr 2012
#41
Reading this brought back memories of sitting in Ancient Egyptian History class
LibertyLover
Apr 2012
#24
Why would the men want to have sex with a dead person? Is that simply a perversion that is
ladjf
Apr 2012
#26
Which law? The law making divorce make difficult for women. the law enabling marriage at
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#39