O’s prostitution is a vicious caricature of old-world religious prostitution. T h e ancient sacral prostitution of the Hebrews, Greeks, Indians, et al., was the ritual expression of respect and veneration for the powers of fertility and generation. T h e priestesses/prostitutes o f the temple were literal personifications o f the life energy of the earth goddess, and transferred that energy to those who participated in her rites. The cosmic princi ples, articulated as divine male and divine female, were ritually united in the temple because clearly only through their continuing and repeated union could the fertility of the earth and the well-being of a people be ensured. Sacred prostitution was “nothing less than an act of communion with god (or godhead) and was as remote from sensuality as the Christian act of communion is remote from gluttony.” 8 O and all of the women at Roissy are distinguished by their sterility and bear no resemblance whatsoever to any known goddess. No mention is ever made of conception or menstruation, and procreation is never a consequence of fucking. O’s fertility has been rendered O. There is nothing sacred about O’s prostitution.
Oh my goooooood this is so bad. Like bad comparative mythology, bad history, bad feminism. Nice one reducing women to biological functions