Sexual ritual
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Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts for reproduction, which are then integrated into society, and elaborated to include aspects such as marriage rites, dances, etc. Arguably indeed, 'sex in its more ritualized and symbolic varieties...has moulded the shape of civilization'.
Sometimes sexual rituals are highly formalized and/or part of religious activity, as in the cases of Hieros gamos, the hierodule and the OTO. Contemporary sacred sexual rituals have been tagged as 'structured, symbolic, manifestation, ceremonies, tradition, everyday, habit, grounding, magic, solemn'.
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See also
- Ambubachi Mela
- Courtship
- Dating
- Hierodule
- Hieros gamos
- Lingam
- Marriage
- Maypole
- Neotantra
- Phallus Worship
- Sacred prostitution
- Sex magic
- Tantric sex
- Yoni worship
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