The Racy Love Life of the Ancient Babylonians
The Babylonians were a society obsessed with sex
The Bible portrays Babylon as a wicked city. The Greeks considered the Ancient Babylonians to be a sex-obsessed culture.
For the Babylonians, having sex was a natural activity, the same as eating and sleeping. You could practice sex without the feeling of guilt and whenever you pleased, as long as nobody got harmed.
Let’s explore the raunchy details of this ancient sexually liberal society.
Quick facts about Ancient Babylon
Ancient Babylon was a city-state in Mesopotamia, a modern-day Iraq. It was first mentioned around 2,300 BC.
For most of its existence, more powerful empires, such as the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ruled Babylon. However, Babylon had two short periods when it won independence and grew into an empire.
The Babylonians were famous for the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Also, they gave us one of the first legal codes in history — the Code of Hammurabi.
