Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Malcolm Potts , Roger Short

2000 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-496
Author(s):  
Helen Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Adam And Eve

4. Adam and Eve, Hijra, LGBTQs, and the shake-up of gender identities

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Florian Coulmas
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity

Like race, gender seems to be an immutable element of our identity, while in both cases natural and socio-cultural determinants interact. ‘Adam and Eve, Hijra, LGBTQs, and the shake-up of gender identities’ explains that in Western societies, gender identities are being renegotiated. It exemplifies the fact that gender roles are subject to social norms, political power conditions, and economic exigencies. Inside (we) and outside (they) perceptions of identity are not always congruent. The present transformation of gender identities is not limited to women’s and men’s definitions of femininity and masculinity, but also involves recognition of LGBTQs who do not fit a two-valued logic of human sexuality. Modifications of established gender relations are likely to induce discrimination.

scholarly journals Zło i grzech w nauczaniu Sulpicjusza Sewera

Vox Patrum ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 443-456
Author(s):  
Józef Pochwat
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Disaster Loss

Sulpicius Severus (c. 360-420) was aware of the enormity of evil that people commit. He kept reminding, that the source of this situation is the sin of the first couple, Adam and Eve. A human being took side of Satan rather than God, and consequently developed all kinds of sins of disorder in a delicate field of human sexuality, various vices, murders and wars. Everyone commits sins, no matter who he is and what he does in life. Sulpicius Severus emphasized the truth that sin means disaster, loss of the most important values of freedom and happiness in God. An important feature in the teaching of Sulpicius Severus is his approach to the pagans and heretics. Both of them are treated by him as those who are under the influence of Satan; pagans – because by worshiping idols they venerate de­mons, and heretics – because by preaching false doctrines they submit to the spirit of lies, that is the spirit of Satan.

Born of Woman, Fashioned from Clay

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Dead

Abstract This essay traces the features of a symbolic construct which seldom garners much attention among scholars of biblical and Second Temple texts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, the likening of earth and womb. It contends that understanding this symbolism brings clarity to several texts whose interpretation is disputed and illuminates important aspects of sectarian thought, including a perspective on human sexuality which has escaped some current scholarship. The representation of the sexed body in the Thanksgiving Psalms (or “Hodayot”) receives extended attention. These psalms, it is shown, have been influenced by the negative rhetorical application of the phrase “born of woman” as found in the book of Job and by a tradition reflected in Jubilees and 4Q265 which employs the creation of Adam and Eve as a paradigm for the purification of new mothers (as described in Lev 12). The argument will show how a homology of earth and womb lies behind or can be derived from each of these traditions and how it comes to shape a profoundly negative, if highly contextualized, view of sexuality in the Psalms of Thanksgiving.

Hobbes and Sex

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hillyer
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
English Verse ◽  
Simon Blackburn ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sexual Repression

AbstractHobbes could not have written Paradise Lost: the longest of his few references to the story of Adam and Eve drains their relationship of drama and complexity; most aspects of human sexuality he addresses only in classifying them as off limits because of their indecency, neglecting topics in some respects germane to the clarification of his philosophy; and his original English verse amounts to one line for each of that epic's twelve books. This short poem nonetheless represents an intriguing persuasion to love written in his extreme old age. Moreover, his treatment of “LUST” in The Elements of Law takes a significantly non-judgmental form by the standards of his time, though not marking so substantial an innovation as Simon Blackburn takes it to be. Most importantly, the anti-puritanical thrust of Hobbes's attack on Presbyterian preachers in Behemoth again illustrates his capacity for entertaining—however briefly—an essentially uncensorious view of human sexuality, this time in conjunction with a critique of sexual repression, as imposed by those clergymen in their role as spiritual advisers, that sheds invaluable light on the self-consciously scandalous libertinism of younger contemporaries often identified in his own day and since as “Hobbists”.

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