The pronounced labia took the attention off the much feared clitoris, visually reducing the size of the demonized part that sticks out, giving the vulva an accommodating and passive look in stark contrast to the aggressive look of an erect (and often mutilated) penis, together serving the patriarchal ideology of opposite genders.
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Jun 272010
The pulling activity points out to the likelihood of ancestral women having pulled on their authentic clitorises for masturbatory purposes in the same way this is still done by males.
Because the inner labia are attached to the clitoral prepuce and together with the outer and inner clitoris constitute one organ, the pulling and resulting sensation would occur in our archaic ancestress whenever they experienced clitoral engorgement, which would stretch the inner labia due to the originally greater thickness and length of the authentic clitoris.
May 192010
To avoid clitoral castration and as an attempt to replace clitoral tissue lost to castration and regain some of the sensation, women eventually started teaching their pubescent daughters to methodically pull on their inner labia with the help of medicinal plants.
Apr 042010
The initially nearly identical female and male phallus possessing a highly developed sensory system ensured exceptionally easy and quick orgasms and a sense of mutual and equal satisfaction among the sexes.
Because these ancient customs were carried on and survived from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Pre-Columbian Americas (before 1492), we can assume a single cultural origin.
Mar 192010
The various artificial changes imposed on girls and boys, made young men highly insecure as they were never able to satisfy women.
Mar 172010
Cold water was sometimes used to numb the flesh (comparable to the later Christian baptizing). The foreskin would be completely cut or burned off, or the underside of the penis would be sliced lengthwise (sub-incision) to bare the resemblance of a vulva, making sacrificial bloodletting a part of the initiation ritual.
Mar 152010
After the boy became a warrior, he was permitted to socialize, reproduce, and join other boys and men in a type of fraternity. Love, acceptance and personal identity were to be obtained through the endurance of torture.
Mar 072010
The rite of passage allowed boys to become full members of their group through the display of courage required in warriors they were about to become.
Feb 232010
Boys too were circumcised in a religious initiation ritual, and in rare cases castrated. The foreskin was said to be feminizing, preventing the boys from becoming men.
Feb 172010
For survival, women learned to ignore the pain and inner conflict of their contradictory existence, and accept their systematic disempowerment on all levels as reality, going as far as embracing this spread of mental and physical disease as a normal part of human maturation.
Feb 102010
And so in the name of this or that god, and depending on group or tribe, children and young women were marked like cattle. The hymen, prepuce, clitoris, inner labia and the g-spot were (and still are) cut, pierced, amputated, burned, scraped, with often fatal consequences.
Because of the importance of territorial expansion and related warrior deaths, reproduction had to be stimulated. This was achieved by demonizing non-reproductive sexual practices, particularly homosexual acts and masturbation.
Feb 032010
The earliest idea of heterosexual monogamy and primitive marriage coincides with the clitoral castration ritual being done in preparation for womanhood.
Feb 022010
The reinvention of female sexuality over the millennia was achieved through the spread of new myths told by the gods, about the clitoris being the male soul of a woman, masculinizing her and preventing her from becoming a real woman.
Feb 012010
Judging by the timing of the maximum average brain volume and height, the amount of time necessary for a drastic change in gene expression to spread, the realization of superiority leading to …
Jan 302010
The visibility and size of the authentic clitoris made it obvious when a woman was sexually aroused by a mate and when she was not, and unlike the penis, the clitoris did not cease to function past a certain age, thereby acting as a constant reminder of the female sexual superiority among the elders.
Jan 292010
In girls, the readiness to endure pain and torture was taught to be interpreted as a sign of maturity, earning young women the right to mate and reproduce.
Jan 282010
The most important part of the initiation was the sacrificial removal of evil impurities classified as taboos, promising spiritual purification and potential immortality.
Jan 272010
Initiation rituals were (and still are) forms of schooling, teaching teens about morals, appropriate behavior, the keeping of secrets, and overall ways of the world according to the leaders and their ancestral gods.
Jan 262010
Ritual bloodletting and the drinking of blood was a form of sacrifice to the spirits for the maintenance of universal order (lasting into the 1960‘s), and served as compensation for the sacrifices the ancestral gods made by giving their descendants life, and as a reminder that they are property of the gods.
Jan 252010
Severe ritual mistreatment of infants and children in form of abandonment, infanticide (child sacrifice), incest, mutilation, rape, beating and torture was not uncommon.
Jan 242010
Artificial deformations of infant and toddler skulls with the use of clay, wooden boards, stones and hands, were done at least since 45,000 BP (Neanderthal) and continued into the Middle Ages (Europe, 500-1500 PT) for the purpose of spiritual maturation and hierarchical rank.
Jan 232010
Physical alterations and scarifications played an important part, demonstrating the ability to submit and become a good follower by conquering pain.
Jan 222010
Everything, including basic survival activities, was ritualized, a cause for celebration, gathering the members, creating excitement, bringing meaning into it, turning customs into laws through repetition, and building tolerance toward otherwise intolerable cruelties.
Jan 212010
With the establishment of religion, the belief in the afterlife and resulting deities, rituals revolved around the idea of give and take between spirits or deities and the living.
Jan 202010
Crucial to the removal of bad spirits, religious faith, communication with deities, psychic visions, initiation rituals, courageous warriors, motivated hunters, and overall successful leadership, was the widespread consumption of mind-altering plants (entheogens).
Jan 192010
Archaic healers continued to use medicinal herbs they inherited from their primate ancestors, passing on the knowledge as a part of their oral tradition.
Jan 182010
Women and children presented the biggest obstacles. One who cares most for being the natural born leader who creates society out of her flesh, and the other naturally explorative, inquisitive, ever curious, and in search of knowledge, meaning and pleasure.
Jan 172010
The establishment of politics and faith rooted in fear was relatively easy to accomplish, because of the individual members’ dependence on one another for successful hunting and mutual protection in often dangerous environments.
Jan 162010
According to academics, evolution of the brain and resulting behavior occurred due to the increased use of abstract thinking patterns which initially developed out of necessity and enabled ancient Homo to survive by adjusting to new environments.
Jan 152010
Historically, every culture has a creation myth telling a story of various goddesses and gods, with at least one angry god who punishes people by giving them suffering and mortality for disobedience of some form, often related to the taking or use of fire or heat.
Jan 142010
As for most of human history, archaic law and rules of conduct were based in religion, which in turn arose with the idea of every living thing possessing a soul, and that the soul is eternal, transforming itself into spirit after the death of the material body.
Jan 132010
Only a woman could have developed the idea of unconditional spiritual love most humans interpret as god. A woman creates human life out of her own flesh and blood, relating to the end result in a unique way, and establishing a relationship unlike no other from the moment of awareness of the embryonic development.
Jan 122010
Shortly after Sapiens inhabited western Eurasia around 35,000 BP, the famous Venus figurines started appearing from Spain to Siberia.
Over the following 30,000 years, figurines depicting mostly females at various life stages were crafted presumably by women as a form of self-expression. The surviving pieces were 0.7-17 inches (2-43cm) in length and were made of stone, ivory, pulverized bone and clay, representing the first ceramics fired in outdoor ovens. The pregnant Venuses in particular, seem to have been made from a perspective one would have if looking down at one’s own body. They were often faceless, headless or with the head bent down, with tiny arms and hands, large breasts, belly, buttocks and thighs, and no feet. Some were depicted with tiny hands wearing jewelry which resembles handcuffs.
Most of the figurines are phallic in shape and have prominent inner labia.
Jan 112010
Snakes, particularly the python, continued to be worshiped by evolving Homo, including Sapiens. A 70,000 BP 20ft (6m) rock, shaped as a python, has been found in the Tsodilo Hills (southern African Kalahari desert). It is engraved with hundreds of V-shaped notches and has a secret chamber inside a cave, which in ancient times was typically used for religious rituals (sacrificial offerings). There were large amounts of broken spear points on the ground outside the cave.
Jan 102010
Around 150,000 BP a woman lived in east Africa. Science calls her the ‘Mitochondrial Eve’.
Every human alive today is related to her.
She is our most common matrilineal ancestress because mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mother to child.
Her female contemporaries either passed before reproducing, had only sons, or were childless.
Jan 092010
By 160,000 BP archaic Sapiens in East and North Africa and the Near East developed a culture in which childhood and puberty were prolonged beyond natural maturity, which in turn led to a slowed overall development when compared to other Homo species.
It is assumed that over the course of the Middle Paleolithic (300,000-30,000 BP), the total Homo population was at 1 million and that the overall birth rates were low with nursing lasting up to 5 years.
Jan 092010
The tools they used evolved over time and space, reaching all 3 continents over the past 150,000-5,000 years.
Long distance barter trade networks were established by 120,000 BP enabling the exchange of locally unavailable goods.
Particularly since 100,000 BP, the archaic Sapiens experienced advancement comparable to that of the Neanderthal and beyond.
Jan 082010
The archaic Homo Sapiens (Latin: wise, knowing) evolved around 250,000 BP in the African savannas (Sub-Saharan Africa).
They repeatedly migrated between Africa and Eurasia, prior to becoming the modern version of Homo Sapiens Sapiens related to the absorption of the remaining Homo species and hybrids, and the final settlements (including the Americas) 15,000-5,000 BP.
