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already. For example, Zeus indulged in having sex with women even though his

only legal wife was Hera. When a goddess, who had a husband, and had sex with

another male, then she would be punished . Once

Hephaestus knew the clandestine meetings of his wife with Ares,

constructed a skilfully woven net which he hung invisibly over the pair’s

bed. Here it fell upon them in their lovemaking and entrapped them.

Hephaestus then summoned all the other gods to see and laugh at the helpless

pair. (Reinhold,100) In addition, it was not allowed for women to be lesbians.

Lesbians were punished harshly. Also, the Greek myths had an idea of “the

earth is female, mother earth, and the sky is male” As a sex historian says ?The

base of many [sexual] assumption often appears in the creation myths.?

(Highwater, 8) It shows ?attitudes arise out of various mythologies and are

then socialised in Custom? (Highwater, 8) Men should be at the top and women

should be at the bottom when they have sexual intercourse. Men dominant over

the women in sex.

In modern societies, women play an important part in sex. Women break

free from the repression, fear and anxiety following the sexual revolution.

Some of the women in America tried to break free from the male-dominant society

by discussing their feeling about sex with other woman. Education leads them

know more about sex. There are handbooks teaching women masturbation technique

because ?masturbation, in fact, could increase the power of women. Women could

arouse and satisfy themselves, males would no longer be required, or, if allowed

to participate, would no longer be in charge.? (Hutchison, 41) It shows that

women can now be ?self-served? and the necessary of the man to exist can be

neglected. Now, women have the right to choose and not subserient to what the

men said. It is because there is an alternative for woman to fulfil their

sexual desire which is masturbation. They can achieve sex by themselves and may

get a better feelings. They can now enjoy it and it is not sex is for men to

enjoy” (Women, 61) “Marketing surveys and a variety approaches convinced

publishers that women were also eager for sexually arousing materials”

(Hutchison, 48) It further implies that sex is not only for the men but also for

the women. Woman are starting to refuse to force their bodies into the fantasy-

forms of male-defined sex … are searching instead for that rare man who is

willing to forsake the the divisive power of pornographic sex for the

confusing, frightening, vulnerable intimacy of eroticism. (Women, 68) After

the second sexual revolution, female could refuse the men’s sexual needs.

Som of the women turned to each other during the second sexual revolution to

explore lesbian sex. Women were not punished. Sodomy is not uncommon in

Greek myths. The Greek Gods would have intercourse with animals in the form

of an animal, “Zeus approaches Leda as a swan, Persephone as a snake: pasiphae

falls in love with a bull and has intercourse with it, and the fruit of this

passion was the Minotaur.” (Licht, 504) In this world, sodomy sometimes

occur but people will not indulge in it.

Homosexuality is quite different between the Ancient Greece and 20th

century. In Ancient Greece, the Gods love men owing to the boy’s beauty. ?Zeus

… the handsome young Trojan Ganymedes, with whom he had fallen in love?

(Reinhold, 81) There is a line by Athenaeus, ?Boys are beautiful, For as long

time as they look like women.? In Western point of view, ?think of sexuality in

terms of binary opposites: male and female, heterosexual and homosexual, marital

sex and pre- or extramarital sex. And in every case, one of these pairs is

privileged, is seen as the normal? (Highwater, 15) Quite often, the gay people

think that women are insecure to love because women are becoming more and more

independent. Moreover, an old man could have a lot of boys but a boy can’t have

a lot of boys or old men. Nowadays, gay people are mostly found not having a

great age-gap. The disallowance of a boy to have a lot of boys or old men is

not common or even exist.

There are similarities and differences in sexual attitude, sexual

behaviour and sexual desire between the Ancient Greece and this modern societies.

The attitude and behaviour of homosexuality and some of the Greek’s sexual

behaviour, for instance, sodomy, will be different from what it is nowadays.

The Greek Gods very concern only about the beauty while people will not only

concern about the beauty. In Ancient Greece, sex was necessary to men and there

was less concern about the satisfaction of women in sex. Women was unfairly

treated. In this modern world, women will fight for their rights and they are

more independent. They can masturbate to achieve their own sexual climax

without the need of men. The laws protect women because the laws always achieve

the goal of ?fairness?. No men can dominate over women. The sexual desire of

men to women is still very strong nowadays which is the same as what it was in

Ancient Greece. They love having sexual intercourse. They only concern about

their targets. From the trend of sexual needs nowadays, the idea of having sex

will become more and more open. The importance of women’s roles in society

will eventually increase.

Bibliography

Highwater, Jamake. Myth and

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