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The Temple of...Sexual Doom? by Delilah Marvelle

Indiana Jones would have had QUITE the erotic adventure if he had decided to treasure hunt in the Babylonian temple known as the temple of Mylitta.

Mylitta was a very fascinating Babylonian version of Aphrodite. There were many rules and laws surrounding the worship of Mylitta. By law, Mylitta, the goddess of love, wanted every woman in the kingdom of Babylon to go into her temple once in her lifetime for a specific purpose. To prostitute herself once in her lifetime. I give you a version of Herodotus that best explains (mind you I intend to comment between these texts...how can I resist!): "Many women, proud of their great wealth and desirous of keeping themselves apart from the vulgar (even though they were about to become vulgar themselves...ehm) traveled in a closed and covered carriage (so that the men on the street wouldn't come running to flip up their togas the moment Lady X drove up to make her sexual sacrifice). She was followed by a number of maidservants into the temple. (Though maids they were not for long...). When a woman became seated she could not return home (can you imagine?!) until one of the men (milling about the temple looking for a good frig) threw down a gold piece into her lap and said, "I demand you in the name of Mylitta.'" The woman would then have no choice but to follow the stranger outside the temple and have intercourse with the man. Sadly, this was expected from every woman once in her lifetime be she married or not, be she old or not, be she sick or not. Mylitta would be waiting. As would all the men...

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Hi Delilah! I remember meeting you at RWA with Mary and Kim. Your book sounds wonderful! Big big congrats on your new HQ contract... just read about it. Your viral campaign certainly paid off!

Best of luck with your new stories.

I think I'd look at the guys outside and pick the least of the worst. Hopefully talk him into demanding to have me. Ahem. That way I could have some control. Or I'd wait till I was really old and go then. Maybe I'd forget it happened. That musta been a rule some man made up.

Wow, Delilah - what fun, lol - and congrats on your contract! woo hoo!!

Great post, Delilah

HI!! I am new here - ran across you on Twitter :) Sounds great and fun too :)

Welcome Tara, and thanks for stopping by! You'll be entered in both drawings. Vonnie, Traci, Mary and Bonnie, welcome back! You'll be entered, too!

Interesting requirement. Sounds like a rule a man would create. Or maybe the women just wanted to have some fun and this is how they could get away with it.

I don't know if there's a problem here. I'm liking Mylitta's rules. I'm thinking I would have named the temple, Mylotta! Heck, why make the rule for just once! Only, I think the babe ought to throw the coin in the guy's lap! A girl always needs her choices!

I've never heard of Mylitta before. Interesting bit of history.

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