Ritual sex

I wrote the following unpublished letter to On the Issues in 1997, responding to an article on the Goddess movement which contained a number of striking inaccuracies (human sacrifice in Ancient Egypt?!).

For me, the most interesting point is the confusion between ritual sex and commercial sex, which crops up everywhere, partly due to confusing terms like "sacred prostitution". I'm just reading an article from Signs about this very point, which reminded me that I wanted to repost the letter, which originally appeared on my now defunct feminist Web site, along with my references.

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