celticpyro:

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

jurakan:

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

boatiechat:

frislander:

moghedien:

Apollo: Sister, what are you the goddess of?

Artemis: *lounging by a spring on piles of deerskin surrounded by three dozen naked girls with a dead pan expression* Virginity.

“Heracles, they’re lesbians”.

Note that the concept of “virginity” in Ancient times merely meant “unmarried”, and had nothing to do with sexual activity. Some priestesses were “virgins” because they chose (or were committed to) a life of worship, but it was merely a question of social status, not of personal choice or practice. Of course, one can suppose that this lifestyle would be rather attractive for lesbians.

So when Artemis is said to be the Goddess of Virgins, it is meant to be understood as “Goddess of Unmarried Women”, or, quite possibly literally, of lesbians. 

(It’s only Christianity that reframed the concept of virginity to mean “never had sex”. Many ancient religions has “Virgin goddesses”, which symbolized feminine power, and in this case too it meant “untied to a man”, or “whole for herself”)

Virginity as a concept of never having had sex before existed before even Israel became a kingdom. What are y’all on?

There’s a full takedown of this nonsense here, if you’re interested.

oh neat, thank you

Tumblr really wants to reframe the word “virgin” to mean “lesbian” now. >_>

Also back then sexual activity where a penis wasn’t involved wasn’t seen as sex. So lesbians were put on par with asexuals back then. Since they were girls it “wasn’t real.”