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[stonedcoldfoxtarot]

Channeled messages & songs about your FS, future wedding and honeymoon (18+ tarot)

Pile 1 -> Pile 2

Pile 3 -> Pile 4

Pile 1

You & Your FS

You and FS may be financially well off but if not they will work hard in the future to provide you with a lot of the finer things in life. Your spouse may be very traditional when it comes to marriage and may have been taught from a young age that a real man, as they define it, is someone who works tirelessly to provide for his wife and kids. You and your FS may both be self employed as well as self-made, and will both be proud of each other’s success. I see that you really admire and look up to your FS, and they look up to you as well. Some of you may also end up going into business together or you may already be working on projects that overlap in some way.

It seems that one or both of you could be from a lower-income or working-class background, or one of you may have had some money issues in the past. Because of this, your FS will make a promise to you (most likely on your wedding night) that they will do whatever it takes to continuously provide you with the financial stability and security that one or both of you lacked when you were younger.

To be clear, your FS values money more than anything, but they don’t value it more than you. They would trade everything they own to be with you. To them, you are worth more than anything money could ever buy, and they will make sure you know that despite their busy schedule you are the most important thing in their life, always. They might even say to you or others that Man makes the money, money never makes the man. Still, I see your FS may have a demanding job or struggle with workaholic tendencies, but I feel you help balance them out and encourage them to let go of the need to control. You show them how to relax and enjoy life without worrying and stressing about deadlines, client meetings and quarterly earnings. You help them stay present and focused on the day to day, and this is why they feel they could never let you go.

Your and your FS will be so head over heels in love with each other, Pile 1. This could also be a twin flame or high-level soulmate connection.

The Wedding

Okay, here I see that one or both of you could be working right up until the day of your wedding.

Pile 1, you may be someone who is naturally curvy or thicc and your FS loves this about you. When they see you on your wedding day, they are going to lose their minds. They thought you were fine af before but when they see you in your dress, they might say fuck the ceramony lets go outside real quick😭

I’m seeing your FS will be blown away by how you look on your wedding day, Pile 1. They might even cry when they see you walking towards them. They feel so lucky in this very moment, and may be overcome with joy, thanking god or the universe for blessing them with your love. At the altar, they might lean in and tell you that you take their breath away and that they can’t wait to get you back to the telly later tonight. When your FS sees you in your dress, all they will think about is how quick they about to take it off you.

I also see that one of both of you may come from a religious family (roman catholic, orthodox, jewish, islamic etc) and so you will most likely have a traditional ceremony to appease your parents, however, I don’t see either of you being particularly religious (although some of you could be somewhat socially conservative). Overall I see your wedding ceremony being pretty short and sweet.

Wedding Night:

Pile 1, your FS is SO in love with you. Just the thought of spending the rest of their life with you by their side turns them on like crazy. On your wedding night, your FS will take the time to show you how much you mean to them. For some of you, they might tell you before you make love, that they have money set aside for you guys to start a life together (maybe they kept this from you in the past?). They want you to know that, from this moment on, they are solely devoted to taking care of you. I feel like your FS will be in a rush to get you naked but will want to take their time making love to you for the first time as husband and wife. They will want to be as physically and emotionally close to you as possible. They wanna go deep inside you but they will also want to touch your soul. They want to connect to you in a way that you’ve never connected with anyone else before. I’m seeing a room covered in rose petals with soft music and champagne on ice. Your FS is very meticulous by nature and will have given precise instructions to the event planner or MOH earlier in the day about how they want things to look for you when you arrive. They really want this night to be the best of your life (so far).

You or them, or both of you, could also be a water sign or have heavy water placements in your chart.

Pile 1, some of you may get pregnant on your wedding night even though I don’t think you set out for it to happen that way. I feel that you and your FS will get so caught up in the moment and neither one of you will want to stop or for them to pull out. I also feel that your FS already made up his mind that they were going to finish inside you as soon as they saw you walk down the aisle. I heard “fuck it we’re married now.”

Honeymoon

I see that you and your FS will do a lot of traveling on your honeymoon, especially by plane. You both may love to travel and visit foreign places so I feel you both will use this trip as an opportunity to see a few places on your wishlist. I also see that even though you and your FS may have planned out your trip together, your FS will end up adding in a few surprise destinations or reservations just to put an extra smile on your face. They will love to spoil you and gift you things as well so expect lots of unforgettable experiences that your FS will surprise you with such as shopping sprees in Paris or Milan, a hot air balloon ride over the desert or a couples massage on a private yacht off the Mediterranean coast. They really want to make your honeymoon unforgettable and I see them being wildly successful in doing so. You both will have the best time of your life.

Pile 2

You & Your FS

I sense that some people in this pile might already have kids with their FS or have kids from a previous relationship. If you are a parent, they are so excited to be a part of your child’s life. They will love them as their own.

I see that you and your FS are both a little on the shy or apprehensive side. Neither of you like to rush into anything or make decisions on a whim, so the decision to finally tie the knot was not made lightly. Between the two of you, your FS may be more outgoing than you Pile 2, but overall you compliment each other quite well. You are both very committed to making this marriage work.

One or both of you may wear glasses.

I feel that you and your FS feel like “only fools rush in” but you both fell for each other the minute you laid eyes on each other. It really was love at first sight. For some of you, I feel like you may already know this person or dated them in the past. You may have been childhood friends or had baby crushes on each other as kids/teenagers. You both might think that finally tying the knot is this big huge thing you’re rushing into, but everyone else is saying “about damn time!” Everyone who sees you two together just knows you are meant to be together.

The Wedding

Again, I see that you both may have been nervous about taking this step together but you guys will finally take the leap! I keep seeing two people holding hands, about to enter their reception. One of you looks at the other and says, “You ready?” It’s like you’re stepping into a whole new world for the first time together. You both take this step very seriously. I see that, right after you exchange vows, your and your FS might sneak away from everyone to hook up in a dressing room or bathroom. To your FS, you look too damn good in your dress or tux and they cannot wait any longer to make things “official.”

Pile 2, your FS might call you ‘babe’ or ‘baby’ a lot. I’m hearing “Don’t be nervous, I’m right here babe.” This person is your rock. They will be there to hold your hand whenever you need them. Nothing is more important to them than your love and your happiness. I see your reception being lit, full of family and friends who love and support you equally. You will both dance and celebrate the night away, almost feeling sad when it’s time for the last dance. Your wedding will be a night to remember in more ways than one.

For some this could also be a destination wedding or take place outdoors near a beach or body of water

Wedding Night

I’m seeing lots of laughter and silliness as you make your way back to the honeymoon suite. They might insist on “carrying you across the threshold” but may not be able to or end up bumping your head on the wall since you’re both pretty tipsy from the reception. But you will find it adorable how seriously they’re trying to observe this tradition.

The room will be gorgeous. I’m seeing floor to ceiling windows overlooking a body of water. Lots of fairy lights and tea candles dimly light the room. You are so touched by the view, it may bring you to tears. I also see that some of you might have decided to wait until your wedding night or maybe you didn’t go “all the way” in the past or it’s just been a while since you’ve really made sweet love to each other. This first time will be electric. Better than either of you could have ever imagined.

I’m seeing someone take their time to undress you. Kissing your neck and shoulders as they fiddle with your buttons or zipper. They want to go slow and savor each moment. They might have a little stamina built up since you guys could have fooled around after exchanging vows by giving each other oral or using your hands.

I keep hearing “ladies first.” They want to make sure they give you multiple orgasms before finally releasing themselves. Tonight, it will be all about pleasing you. They might give you a massage first. Your FS could be very good with their hands due to their occupation or they might work in medicine/physical therapy and be well-versed in human anatomy.

I see lots of aromatherapy here as well. Your FS may be big on creating a mood or a vibe for every occasion. They might do such a good job helping you relax that you may accidentally fall asleep lmao. But they will keep going. Rubbing you from head to toe until every muscle in your body is attended to. Once they finish, they will gently turn you on your back and kiss you while they slide inside of you.

This might take you by surprise and for some you, you might climax right away. They will tell you how beautiful you sound when you moan. They will also love how you say their name and how you beg them not to stop. Your FS will live to please you.

I see that even though they normally like to go hard and fast, on your wedding night they will go slow for you. To them, this night is supposed to be more about making you happy than about getting themselves off. Of course you both will eventually climax together and afterwards they may fall asleep inside you, holding you as you sleep. At some point your FS might wake up in the middle of the night and start fucking you again while spooning you.

I see lots of whispers between kisses about how much you love and cherish each other. Very beautiful energy.

Honeymoon

I don’t see a lot of travel here. As I mentioned, this may be a destination wedding so some of you are already at the place where you will spend your honeymoon. For others, you may be staying local due to other commitments such as kids, family, work etc, or postponing a big trip for a later date.

Your FS is addicted to your sex, Pile 2. They come alive when they are inside you (or you inside them, flip the roles as needed). They might also be into sex in public places such as quickies in the bathroom, head while they’re driving or sex on the beach at night. Something about the thrill of being caught really gets them going. You may both also be very handsy with each other on your honeymoon and others around you might be thinking “get a room!” but you both couldn’t care less.

This person loves the way you give them head. They think you’re the throat goat, Pile 2. They lose their mind when you do that thing with your tongue 👅💦 And they especially love when you get freaky with them in the car. On your honeymoon, I see that you and your FS might spend a lot of your time driving to different locations such as restaurants or bars and they will take every opportunity they can to talk you into pulling your panties to the side before you get out of the car. They truly cannot get enough of you.

Pile 3

You & Your FS

If you are a woman, you might have short hair or your FS may have longer or shoulder length hair. Here, I see that you and your FS may be somewhat unconventional, but you both pull it off well.

I also see that you or your FS may have fantasized about this connection for a long period of time before actually going on a first date. I feel that one or both of you may have been off limits to each other at one point. You or your FS could have been with someone else when you guys met, so things stayed in the fantasy realm for some time. One of you never thought you would actually be walking down the aisle and exchanging vows with someone you consider to be your best friend, but here you are, finally!

I’m seeing here that some of you may have been in the system as a child or one of you is rebuilding your life after struggle. One or both of you may be on the road to recovery in some way, but you both act as each other’s rock or guiding light in hard times. This is a connection that truly embodies the phrase “for better or for worse.”

The Wedding

The wedding is small and intimate. You may even elope. I see one or both of you may have a lot of tattoos. On your special day, Pile 3, I see you wearing a fitted sleeveless dress and everyone around you is in awe of how beautiful you look. You and your FS’s wedding attire is understated but it fits your aesthetic perfectly. Neither of you enjoy big parties or being the center of attention; you keep the things you love closest to your heart.

One or both of you may write your own vows. If not, I feel like the other person, in a moment of closeness between the two of you, will share their deepest, most vulnerable feelings with you through something they've written or recorded. They want you to know that they don’t plan on going anywhere. You mean the world to them and they feel they would be lost without you.

Some of you might go get matching tattoos on your ring fingers after the ceremony. You both prefer sentimental gestures over grandiose displays of affection and might have a lot of inside jokes or references between just the two of you.

Your wedding day will be low key, but I see this is exactly how you wanted it to go. You and your FS would rather take the money you would spend on a big wedding and put a downpayment on a house or use it to take a once-in-a-lifetime trip for several weeks. You will see the wedding as a formality or paperwork to make things legal on paper, since you two have been loving each other silently for many years before your hands even touched. You know this person is it for you and they are just as sure about you.

Wedding Night

Pile 3, I see that you and your FS will kiss and dance together under the moonlight or in a room with a beautiful view of the sky, just the two of you. You will kick back and enjoy each other’s company deeply. You or your FS may feel like you rescued them. Lots of mirroring energy here.

This person will be mesmerized by the way you look. They think you’re absolutely breathtaking and have felt that way since they first laid eyes on you, but there’s something about the way you look on your wedding night that will have them all the way in their feelings. They may be rather quiet, just caught up in rapture by you and this unforgettable moment. They feel so utterly blessed and like the luckiest person on the planet. They feel like the sky opened up just for them and blessed them with something they’ve always prayed for.

For some of you, this may be a later in life marriage or you both never thought you’d find someone you actually wanted to walk down the aisle with. I keep hearing “Is this really happening?” They almost don’t wanna close their eyes just in case they’re only dreaming and they accidentally wake up.

Your FS will be in heaven in your arms. They want to cherish this moment forever. You guys might not even have sex on your wedding night, simply because you end up talking or holding and cuddling each other until the sun comes up. They feel like there’s no rush because you have the rest of your lives to make love to each other. Your FS might really be into morning sex, so even if you end up falling asleep before consummating your marriage, they will wake you up the next morning with the most mind-blowing sex you’ve ever had in your life.

They are ready whenever, but it’s something about sex first thing in the morning with their soulmate that will have them ready to give it to you long and hard. I see they are very skilled at making you climax back to back. You FS, regardless of their size or gender, gives serious big dick big daddy energy. You will have multiple orgasms back to back, while they do everything in their power to hold back and make this moment last as long as possible. They don’t wanna pull out EVER.

Honeymoon

For the honeymoon I’m seeing a road trip? You guys might rent an RV or decked out van and take a few weeks off to travel around your country, city or state. One or both of you may have pets that you wouldn’t dream of leaving behind for several weeks, so you found a way to sightsee and explore while bringing them along.

For the rest of your honeymoon, I see you both making love mostly in the morning or in the shower. Your FS might be someone who knocks out early or has a hard time staying awake once their head hits the pillow, but once they wake up and see your beautiful face laying next to them, they will get so turned on and want to put their pent-up sexual energy to use right away. And I don’t see you minding because to you there’s no better way to start your day than by making love to the man or woman of your dreams.

I see lots of outdoorsy stuff here. Lots of exploring, hiking or taking photos in front of cheesy monuments that you will look at and cherish for years to come. I see you two visiting kooky places or tourist traps along your trip as a way to create once-in-a-lifetime memories. I also see that your spouse may be a few years older than you so they might have trouble keeping up with you at times, but they will do their best. Before you, they may have felt that their life had little to no meaning but now they know they were born to love and cherish you. You two are true soulmates, in this lifetime and the next.

Pile 4

You & Your FS

Pile 4, at the time of your engagement and wedding, I see that some of you might be finishing up an advanced degree or will have just graduated from school. You will feel like you have your entire life ahead of you, and you are absolutely right. Things will be falling into place effortlessly, thanks to you and your FS both being very responsible and future-oriented individuals.

I see that you and your spouse may be from a similar culture or background and that both families are quite pleased with your union. You may be the oldest of your siblings or just the most responsible person within your friend and peer group. Many people see you and your FS as “relationship goals” and think that you both are beautiful, successful and naturally very lucky. This pile gives me heavy prom king/queen or valedictorian/salutatorian energy.

I see here that some of you will pick out your own engagement ring because you have very particular tastes and like things to look or feel a certain way. Pile 4, you may be a little high maintenance, but your FS actually really loves this about you. When it comes to you and your FS, all you have to do is point to something and they'll make sure that it’s yours. Your FS may have a high-paying job or come from a wealthy family, so they are used to showing their love and affection by buying you whatever you want and spoiling you with flashy gifts.

The Wedding:

Pile 4, I see that your wedding will be very lavish and upscale. You both will look like money. You and your FS might be foreign born or have big families back home in another country. Some of you may have more than one reception (for family in your country) or you might have several outfit changes throughout the day.

I see here that tradition is very important to one or both of you. You both don’t believe in putting the cart before the horse. In your mind, it goes courting, dating, marriage, babies. Pile 4, I see that you have had a clear plan for your life since a young age and have been able to make sure everything goes according to plan thus far. I see your wedding and honeymoon will be no different. Some of you may even have your wedding date synced to your ovulation schedule so that you and your FS can start trying for babies right away. You both may want to have a large family and feel there is no real use in waiting once you say “I do.”

I see you both will really enjoy your wedding reception as everything has been planned perfectly down to the last detail. All you and your FS will have left to do is to show up and have fun. I also see that for some, both your families have spared no expense for this occasion. This will truly be the wedding of your (and several other people’s) dreams! Pile 4, you will look like a princess on your wedding day because in the eyes of those who love you, you truly are one.

I’m seeing that many of you who picked this pile may be quite young (mid 20s, maybe?). You and your spouse either met in college, though a mutual friend group or were introduced by your families. You both are well suited for each other and will make a great power couple as you age and begin to grow as a family.

Wedding Night

Hmm okay I see this is the pile for the certified freaks. I see either you or your FS will have a lot of energy for the wedding night and y’all might end up fucking like rabbits all night long. I see rounds after rounds until one of you finally taps out. I also see that for many of you, your FS might get you pregnant on your wedding night, but you wouldn’t mind. As far as you’re concerned, they are it for you.

Some of you might be into using toys and handcuffs and spicing things up with role play. Your FS might also have a little bit of a foot fetish or just think you have really beautiful feet. Whatever the case, I see that you will keep your FS on his toes in the bedroom and he won’t be able to get enough of you. Whips, chains, handcuffs - you do alladat. I heard, “I grew out my beard so you can wet it.” They love it when you ride their face. You make your FS so happy with how freaky you are in the bedroom, but they also love how you keep it classy in the streets. I feel the reason you guys are getting married so young is because they really couldn’t wait any longer to lock you down. Your FS knows you’re a catch and they are proud to give you both their first child and their last name.

After a long and exhausting day, I see you and your spouse finally leaving your reception way later than planned - you guys were just having too much fun to say goodbye. You might feel tired and ready for a nap on the way to the room but once you guys enter your suite, I see you will both suddenly get your second wind. For some, your spouse will draw you a nice relaxing bubble bath and tell you to take your time getting ready for them.

They might flip through the tv or scroll their phone aimlessly until you come out. But once they see you in your bridal lingerie, it’s game on. They will be so turned on you will have to push them off you because they will want to do it right there where you stand. Fuck moving over to the bed, that would take too long haha.

I see that some of you may bring handcuffs or scarves and tie your spouse to the bed. From there you will tease them until they literally beg you to sit on it. But you wont give in so easily. I see you like being a tease. You might even dominate them a little, biting and kissing their thighs, saying things like “Yeah, you want me to put it in my mouth, don't you?” They will be almost whimpering from the anticipation of pleasure that they are already dripping and throbbing before you give them head. And when you finally do, they are going to almost explode right away. They will be begging you to hurry up and sit on so they can finish inside you. I keep hearing “Fuck baby, I’m gonna cum.” You make them bust over and over and they can’t hold back when you do the things that you do to them.

Finally, I see you untying them and letting them have their fun. They might grab you and pound you fast and hard, finally releasing all that pent up energy from earlier in the day. I see that throughout these moments, you will be in ecstasy. And for some of you, you may have an out of body experience as waves of pleasure wash over you as you cum. I see this person making sure they finish inside you every time because they don’t want any of your future babies going to waste lmao. They wanna save it all for you.

I see that you guys will probably stay up all night and won’t pass out until the following morning. Guests who stayed at the hotel overnight might ask for you guys at breakfast and then laugh to themselves realizing you’re probably either upstairs having sex or taking a break between rounds. They will remember what it’s like to be young and in love, and will possibly have some food sent to your room for nourishment. Your friends and family are highly supportive of this union.

Honeymoon

I see that for some of you, you and your spouse will have a very “smart” or elegant honeymoon in London, Paris, NYC or similar. Lots of museum visits, going to shows and sightseeing in major cities. One or both of you may be really into the arts or high-brow, upscale outings and your IG feed will be the envy of others. Here I see that your FS will handle all of the small day to day details of the honeymoon, such as reservations, hiring a car service or calling ahead to make sure the staff has a bottle of wine chilled and ready for their new bride. They will want you to intrinsically know through their actions that they will always be on top of things for you. They will try to cater to you like it’s their job.

Again, I’m seeing that both of you may be traditional or come from cultures where tradition is very important, so this person will make sure to play their part for you because they know you expect nothing less, and you will match their energy where it counts.

Overall, I see you and your spouse really enjoying your wedding and honeymoon. Making memories that you will share with your friends, family, kids and future grandkids for years to come.

Thanks for reading🔮✨

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[hussyknee]

Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani’s Kitab al-Aghani records the lives of a number of individuals including one named Tuways who lived during the last years of Muhammad and the reigns of the early Muslim dynasties. Tuways was mukhannathun: those who were born as men, but who presented as female. They are described by al-Isfahani as wearing bangles, decorating their hands with henna, and wearing feminine clothing. One mukhannathun, Hit, was even in the household of the Prophet Muhammad. Tuways earned a reputation as a musician, performing for clients and even for Muslim rulers. When Yahya ibn al-Hakam was appointed as governor, Tuways joined in the celebration wearing ostentatious garb and cosmetics. When asked by the governor if he were Muslim Tuways affirmed his belief, proclaiming the declaration of faith and saying that he observes the fast of Ramadan and the five daily prayers. In other words, al-Isfahani, who recorded the life of a number of mukhannathun like Tuways, saw no contradiction between his gender expression and his Muslimness. From al-Isfahani we read of al-Dalal, ibn Surayj, and al-Gharid—all mukhannathun—who lived rich lives in early Muslim societies. Notably absent from al-Isfahani’s records is any state-sanctioned persecution. Instead, the mukhannathun are an accepted part of society.

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Far from isolated cases, across Islamic history—from North Africa to South Asia—we see widespread acceptance of gender nonconforming and queer individuals. - Later in the Ottoman Empire, there were the köçek who were men who wore women’s clothing and performed at festivals. Formally trained in dance and percussion instruments, the köçek were an important part of social functions. A similar practice was found in Egypt. The khawal were male dancers who presented as female, wearing dresses, make up, and henna. Like their Ottoman counterparts, they performed at social events.

- In South Asia, the hijra were and are third-sex individuals. The term is used for intersex people as well as transgender women. Hijra are attested to among the earliest Muslim societies of South Asia where, according to Nalini Iyer, they were often guardians of the household and even held office as advisors.

- In Iraq, the mustarjil are born female, but present as men. In Wilfred Thesiger’s The Marsh Arabs the guide, Amara explains, “A mustarjil is born a woman. She cannot help that; but she has the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.” When asked if the mustarjil are accepted, Amara replies “Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif.” Amara goes on to describe how mustarjil have sex with women.

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Historian Indira Gesink analyzed 41 medical and juristic sources between the 8th and 18th centuries and discovered that the discourse of a “binary sex” was an anachronistic projection backwards. Gesink points out in one of the earliest lexicography by the 8th century al-Khalil ibn Ahmad that he suggests addressing a male-presenting intersex person as ya khunathu and a female-presenting intersex person as ya khanathi while addressing an effeminate man as ya khunathatu. This suggests a clear recognition of a spectrum of sex and gender expression and a desire to address someone respectfully based on how they presented.

Tolerance of gender ambiguity and non-conformity in Islamic cultures went hand-in-hand with broader acceptance of homoeroticism. Texts like Ali ibn Nasir al-Katib’s Jawami al-Ladhdha, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani’s Kitab al-Aghani, and the Tunisian, Ahmad al-Tifashi’s Nuz’ha al-‘Albab attest to the widespread acceptance of same-sex desire as natural. Homoeroticism is a common element in much of Persian and Arabic poetry where youthful males are often the object of desire. From Abu Nuwas to Rumi, from ibn Ammar to Amir Khusraw, some of the Islamic world’s greatest poets were composing verses for their male lovers. Queer love was openly vaunted by poets. One, Ibn Nasr, immortalizes the love between two Arab lesbians Hind al Nu’man and al-Zarqa by writing:

“Oh Hind, you are truer to your word than men. Oh, the differences between your loyalty and theirs.”

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Acceptance of same-sex desire and gender non-conformity was the hallmark of Islamic societies to such a degree that European travelers consistently remarked derisively on it. In the 19th century, Edward Lane wrote of the khawal: “They are Muslims and natives of Egypt. As they personate women, their dances are exactly of the same description as those of the ghawazee; and are, in like manner, accompanied by the sound of castanets.”

A similarly scandalized CS Sonnini writes of Muslim homoerotic culture:

“The inconceivable appetite which dishonored the Greeks and the Persians of antiquity, constitute the delight, or to use a juster term, the infamy of the Egyptians. It is not for women that their ditties are composed: it is not on them that tender caresses are lavished; far different objects inflame them.”

In his travels in the 19th century, James Silk Buckingham encounters an Afghan dervish shedding tears for parting with his male lover. The dervish, Ismael, is astonished to find how rare same-sex love was in Europe. Buckingham reports the deep love between Ismael and his lover quoting, “though they were still two bodies, they became one soul.”

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Today, vocal Muslim critics of LGBTQ+ rights often accuse gay and queer people of imposing a “Western” concept or forcing Islam to adjust to “Western values” failing to grasp the irony of the claim: the shift in the 19th and 20th century was precisely an alignment with colonial values over older Islamic ones, all of which led to legal criminalization. In fact, the common feature among nations with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation isn’t Islam, but rather colonial law.

Don't talk to me I'm weeping. I'm not Muslim, but the grief of colonization runs in the blood of every Global South person. Dicovering these is like finding our lost treasures among plundered ruins.

Queer folk have always, always been here; we have always been inextricable, shining golden threads in the tapestry of human history. To erase and condemn us is to continue using the scalpel of colonizers in the mutilation and betrayal of our own heritage.

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[girlactionfigure]

Look.

At every single face.

134 innocent people brutally stolen from their families after 1200 Israelis were massacred in a single day, in an unprovoked barbaric attack by Hamas. This Islamic fundamentalist terror organization has the support of many Palestinians. Still. And worse, much of the civilized world.

Amongst the surviving hostages, there are different nationalities and religions, babies and elderly people. There are mothers and fathers, children, uncles and aunts, grandparents, brothers and sisters.

We have no idea how they are.

They've been held for 6 months now. 6 months.

It's unthinkable.

Their freedom not being an absolute priority for the Western world is outrageous. The world speaks of Gaza as though this never happened by the people who made it happen: Jihadi terrorists and their supporters.

The world continues to adopt THEIR narrative.

It's shocking to see affluent, educated individuals, advocates for various rights - from climate change, trans and women's rights - siding with Hamas sympathizers after their October 7th atrocities. As Sam Harris said, it just reveals how confused and decadent and morally vulnerable our civilization has become.

Israel's October 7th was like America's 9/11s. But worse. The equivalent is 40,000 victims—13 times more than the number of Al Qaeda victims on 9/11.

But not just in numbers.

In intensity. Everyone here knows someone who was lost.

In brutality. They were individually eliminated in the worst way imaginable.

In continuity. The attacks went on for months with daily rockets rendering people across the country, like me, running to bomb shelters with my kids. Months. And armed terrorists attacking us - who still do.

And yes, the hostages. They are still there. And in political debate, by armchair pundits, they are often not even mentioned.

I never imagined how many people I considered friends and trusted colleagues who have decided to remain quiet - not a peep. Somehow they think that speaking up for those massacred and the hostages means they aren't FOR the many innocent Palestinians killed in this conflict.

You can be for both, for ALL innocents, as I am.

War is ugly but unfortunately right now, necessary. To those who are too afraid to say it for fear of being canceled - there, I said it. Cancel my a**.

We will NOT be quiet about it.

Not on Facebook.

Not on any social media platform.

Not with our friends.

Not with our co-workers.

Not with our clients.

Not on the news.

Not on the streets.

These people are family to us.

They ARE our family.

Look at their faces.

May they come home alive, soon.

Words by Eitan Chitayat

#Israel #October 7 #Hamas Massacre #Hamas Kidnappers #6 Months #BringThemHomeNow

[ohsalome]

A Russian court sentenced Imam Raif Fevziev, a defendant in the "Crimean Muslim case," to 17 years in prison.

The lawyer of the sentenced Crimean imam Edem Semedlyaev commented on the sentence handed down by the Russian court, saying that his client was sentenced to 17 years "for talking about Islam."

"Murderers don't get such sentences. A man was given 17 years for a 70-minute conversation about Islam today," said lawyer Edem Semedlyaev.

Defenders of those arrested and convicted in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir case" consider their persecution to be motivated by religion. The lawyers point out that those persecuted in this case by the Russian law enforcement agencies are mainly Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians, Russians, Tajiks, Azerbaijanis and Crimeans of other ethnic origin professing Islam.

According to the latest data, russia is currently illegally detaining 158 political prisoners, 111 of them are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.

In a sickly ironic way, today in Ukraine is the Day of political prisoners. If you are able, please consider donating to Noman Çelebicihan crimean tatar batalion to help them liberate their home. Paypal: [email protected]

#ukraine #war in ukraine #russian war crimes #crimean tatars #islam #islamophobia #political prisoners #russia #polticial presecutions

[theculturedmarxist]

A former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Dr. Udo Ulfkotte became nationally renowned in dissident circles for his 2014 book Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, originally published in German, which went through multiple translations.

The book relays Ulfkotte’s experience with how the CIA and German Intelligence (BND) bribe journalists to write articles free of truth and facts, and with a decidedly pro-Western, pro-NATO bent or, in other words, propaganda.

One of Ulfkotte’s formative professional experiences was as a war correspondent during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), where the Iraqis were considered to be “the good guys”—because they were serving Western interests in confronting Iran, whose Islamic regime had toppled a long-standing U.S. client, the Shah, in a 1979 revolution.

Iraqi war crimes under Saddam Hussein were covered up along with Washington’s interests in trying to weaken and divide two aspiring Middle Eastern powers so the U.S. could dominate the region and exploit its oil resources.

When he first arrived in Baghdad, Ulfkotte was a little scared. He did not have any experience as a war correspondent. The Iraqi Army quickly sent him off to the front line; the bus was full of loud, experienced war correspondents from prestigious media such as BBC, and Udo was just a miserable rookie.

The first thing that struck him as odd was that everybody was carrying canisters with them. He got upset that very moment and he thought to himself: “Ooops, if the bus gets stuck far from the petrol station, all of them chip in by filling in some petrol into the engine so Udo decided that in the future he would have to carry a canister as well.”

They were on a bus for hours on end riding through the desert. At 20 to 30 kilometers from the border, there was literally nothing there. There was no war whatsoever. There were armed vehicles and tanks long since burned to ash. The reporters got off the bus and sprayed the contents of the canisters all over the vehicles. The Iraqi soldiers were there with them with the machine guns: “Imagine that, tanks in the desert, burned to ash a long time ago, set on fire only now. The clouds of smoke all around. And the reporters positioning their cameras.”

What he witnessed was flame and clouds of smoke behind them, and the Iraqis running around in front of the cameras all the time with machine guns in their arms and scowling military looks in their eyes. Udo mustered up courage and asked one reporter: “I understand. The photos are brilliant, but why do they keep stooping and ducking down?”

The man replied: “Simple. In the audio played in the background one could hear machine guns, and it will sound very good back home.”

Udo kept thinking all the way home. “Young man, you did not see a war at all. You were by the campfire. What are you going to write about?”

Yes, that is a problem for a rookie working for a news agency. Performances are mainly adapted to suit the media needs. It is necessary that one “fits in” with the other seasoned professionals and concoct stories out of thin air that those in positions of authority want the people to hear—not ones that actually exist.

When Udo got back to Baghdad, there were no mobile phones; they were waiting in the Rashid Hotel for hours at times for the international line. He first phoned his mother, not his employer. He was desperate. He did not know what to do. At that point his mother started crying over the phone: “My boy! You are alive!” Udo thought to himself: “What do you mean? Is everything all right? My dear boy! We thought….What is happening, Mother? We saw on TV what happened around you.”

The TV channel had already sent back the fake stories and he tried to calm his mother down, trying to explain that it did not happen the way she believed it did. She thought Udo lost his mind. Udo said in his book that he would finish there, because he was not there to tell us a satire. He only wanted to say that this was his first experience with the truth in journalism and war correspondence. Basically, he was utterly shocked with the first contact he made. But, unfortunately, that was not an isolated case.[1]

In Udo’s naïve mind, war was a place where a reporter could report on horrifying events and help the public to empathize with the victims of war and expose the hidden political machinations behind it.

Instead, he found himself forced to write fake stories from far away from the front lines and to manufacture propaganda to induce consent among the public.

The ones manufacturing the stories were associated with the intelligence agencies whose job it is to deceive the public.

By serving as a correspondent in the Middle East, Ulfkotte was able to meet agents from the CIA, British M16, the Israeli MOSSAD and the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtungendienst (BND).

His editors used to readily cooperate in such operations of collating intelligence information, which the reporters would dutifully transcribe for the public back home.

The skill of unofficial reporting is when a reporter essentially works for the CIA and he or she is not employed in an official role, Ulfkotte explains.

Both sides hugely benefit from their partnership and at the same time both sides can deny their relationship. The CIA would have found young reporters and they would then be their mentors. All of a sudden many doors would open for them, they would be granted awards and before they knew it, their mentors (read: paymasters) would have owned their whole careers.[2]

This is basically the name of the game. This is how it all works. Ulfkotte admitted with regret that he published articles in his own name that were actually written by CIA agents and other intelligence services, particularly the German secret services.

Ulfkotte went on to say that he had close contact with the German intelligence service, BND. Two persons from BND were regularly coming to the newspaper office where he worked. On occasion, he says, he was not only given the report but that the BND wrote the articles, which were published in the newspapers under Udo’s name.

Udo was asked by an interviewer if he could document what he was saying and he responded yes, that he could.

“I can say that this and that article with my text in the papers was written by the intelligence services because I couldn’t have possibly known what was written in it. I couldn’t have possibly known what was there in a cave in Libya, what secret thing in one particular place, what is being built there. That is what BND wanted to publish (using my name),” writes Udo.[3]

It was not like this only in FAZ. This was in other media as well.

“If we had rule of law, there would be an investigative committee to investigate dubious claims. Political parties would be outraged and rise [against the injustice of the fake news], regardless of whether they were the political left, the political right or the center and they would say: ‘What is this guy Ulfkotte saying? And he claims that he can document everything? This needs to be investigated.’”[4]

Udo continued: “This is still a common thing. I know some colleagues of mine who still maintain a close contact with the intelligence services. I would feel very good if there was an investigative committee but this obviously is not going to happen, because it is in nobody’s interest to do so. Because in that case the general public would understand to what extent politics, media and secret services are closely connected in this country.”[5] And in this world!

When Ulfkotte had a close encounter with his own conscience—and if one reads Dostoyevsky, they know that there is no person in the world who does not wrestle with their own moral dilemmas—he decided to elaborate on his experiences. In doing so, he provided significant insight into contemporary media and of the society that we live in.

Almost everybody knows but only a few dare speak about what Udo said.

He wrote: “I was in close contact with some European media or big private media companies—you cannot write or say what you feel like and what your views are necessarily. I can tell you that what I am saying here is what I have experienced everywhere. There are clear directives and everybody knows that one cannot publish what they want in the newspapers owned by Springer such as Bild or Welt—for instance the articles critical of Israel. There is no way you can do that there! You have signed an agreement that you will not challenge the question of the existence of a country of Israel or the Israeli point of view. These directives exist in all big media companies.”[6]

Ulfkotte continued: “If you do not wish to remain stuck in the lower corporate levels but you would rather travel with the chancellor, ministers, president or with the politicians, in the airplanes which belong to the government, in that case you have to adhere to certain rules. I have learnt that rather quickly.

What we consider as free journalism is a rather orderly and orchestrated thing to its every detail. But for your superiors, it is vitally important that that is not viewed as censorship and limiting of free reporting or whichever (bland and vague) terms and phrases they tend to use.

I soon realized that when I was tasked to accompany Helmut Kohl, the then German Chancellor, in my capacity of a journalist, you are not invited to do this job because your name is Udo Ulfkotte but because you work for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.”[7]

Udo went on to write:

“In such a case, one is expected to deliver a certain kind of reporting. Which one? Forget about my news agency. This is to do with all of them in general. At the outset of the journey, a reporter is given a set of directions as to what to ask, how to communicate. Normally, you are not told what to say and ask, to write something in this way or that way but you are painfully aware that if you do not do that in such and such a way, you will not be invited next time. Your media company will be called to tell them that you are not wanted. And then you are out!

Those in charge of the cooperation with the media are the non-government ‘think tanks,’ those foundations and organizations which arguably are ‘independent’ in the same way that independent journalists supposedly are.

I am often asked where are those people who ‘pull all the strings,’ so that everything is told in a similar way? Look at those people who sit in the huge transoceanic think-tanks and foundations, for instance, look at the foundation Atlantic Bridge, and in all such organizations. And how is one supposed to influence others there?

I know from personal experience. Let us not speak only theoretically. The German Marshall Fund invited me as their colleague to visit the USA for six weeks earlier on. All expenses paid. This think-tank had close contact with the CIA, and I gained easy access to all the U.S. politicians, to all of them I was eager to be in contact with.

Above all, they literally showered me with gifts.”[8]

The journalists and the news agencies which are supposed to be, if one follows the logic of their role in a democratic society and its laws and constitutions, and then code of ethics and professional conduct, to take care of general interests, find themselves facing a challenging situation—take something for yourself or give something from within yourself for something distant and uncertain. A human being cannot resist small things that the powers that be are able to provide for them profusely.

“Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.” – Graham Greene

All that is the name of the game. When The German Marshall Fund took Ulfkotte to the U.S., they told him that they knew he took a diving course in Oman. The CIA knew with utmost precision. They even gave him diving equipment through his contact in Oman.

During these six weeks he got an invitation from the governor of Oklahoma. He went there. There was a small ceremony and he received honorary U.S. citizenship. He became an honorable citizen of the USA. It was written in his certificate that from then on he would only write nice things in his reports.

The English version of the book by Udo Ulfkotte, The Bought Journalists, i.e., Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, appeared on May 15, 2017, but by it having been published, the whole story surrounding it was not over.

According to the research by Off Guardian, Tayen Lane Publishing has since removed all references for this book from its website. Amazon UK indicates that the title is currently unavailable, with the possibility of the purchase from independent distributors, which offer used copies for an exorbitant amount of a thousand U.S. dollars per copy.

At least a 2019 version of the book, Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession is available for a reasonable price on amazon and goodreads.com at least in the U.S. Though you won’t find the book on display in Barnes & Noble or other big book shops as the powerful people who rule the world don’t want its content being widely read.

Regrettably, Udo Ulfkotte died of a heart attack at the age of 57 (Tracy, 2018).

After reading his books and writings, one wonders: “Is there anybody in the mainstream media who has not worked for the CIA?”

“In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” – Oscar Wilde.

Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are both world famous, with the former having much more luck by moving to Russia. Udo Ulfkotte, however, is almost completely out of the public gaze, although he was a journalist and whistleblower in the media industry, possibly as important as both.

One might think that this comes across as paradoxical. Yet it only means that the public does not recognize profound relations in the media industry.

Ulfkotte was a renowned European journalist with a Ph.D. in the social sciences and an immigration reform activist, among other things. When he wrote Gekaufte Journalisten: Wie Politiker, Geheimdienste und Hochfinanz Deutschlands Massenmedien lenken (the translation of its original title is Bought Journalists [alternatively, a translation of the title more to the point is Journalists for Hire]: How Politicians, Secret Services and High Finance Steer German’s Mass Media), he became one of the most significant whistleblowers in recent history.

James Tracy pointed out in Off Guardian that Ulfkotte showed how the Western secret services took over the central place in the Western journalism.” According to Tracey, Ulfkotte was able to witness all that with credibility and his personal and professional integrity because he was working in top echelons of the mainstream media profession for years.

Tracy added that the presence of the secret (intelligence) services is neither a chance encounter nor is it random. Their recruitment techniques are always similar in every corner of the globe.

#udo ulfkotte #cia #bnd #imperialism #propaganda #MI6 #mossad #iran iraq war #journalism #media corporations #mainstream media

[losthistoryblog]

Dastangoi: The Art of Storytelling

Dastangoi is an Urdu storytelling art. Derived from Persia. Dastangoi is performed by one person who's referred to as a Dastango, the word for storyteller. Stories are referred to as Dastans. Dastan means, tale or story and the suffix -goi makes it a verb. Hence, Dastangoi translates to "to tell a story"

Dastangoi had it's origins in pre-Islamic Arabia and moved onto Iran and then the North Indian cities of Delhi and Lucknow in the 18th century.

It was very popular in Lucknow, across all classes of people and in public and private. It was done in the streets, in homes and even opium dens. Many people saw Dastans as a key part of the the experience in an opium den

Some people, who were particularly rich would hire Dastangos to entertain their clients and friends. These stories would come under themes such as, war, pleasure, beauty, love and deception.

Dastangoi enjoyed a revitalisation in India in 2005, which seemed to have stemmed from Mahmood Farooqui

#history #archaeology #india #urdu poetry #lucknow

[gothhabiba]

[...] Ms. Zkik explained that Plug-in [a company hired to translate and voice act dubbings of foreign films and television into Moroccan Arabic] was not entirely free in the choice of language it used in dubbing in Moroccan Arabic. Ismail, a voice actor at Plug-in who I met on one of my visits, explained to me that during the first year he began dubbing at Plug-in there were specific guidelines from their client, the broadcasting station 2M, regarding register and lexical choice. For example, during recordings he said that he had been specifically told not to use the word “tomobil”[,] a frequently used word for ‘car’[,] because it was a clear French borrowing. The term “siya:ra” [سيارة] ‘car’ was preferred due to its Standard Arabic origin. Ismail interpreted these guidelines as both a desire by 2M to create a truly “Moroccan” dubbing in that linguistic reminders of a French colonial influence had been minimized. He also saw it as a nod to viewers who use other varieties of Arabic and who may not understand French borrowings into Moroccan Arabic.

— Jennifer Lee Hall, Debating Darija: Language Ideology and the Written Representation of Moroccan Arabic in Morocco (PhD dissertation), 2015, pp. 76-9.

(the "during recordings" is misplaced—Hall means that Ismail was not to use the word "tomobil" while recording dubs, not that he communicated this to her during said recordings)

this is really interesting to me. the presence of French (and, to a lesser extent, Spanish) borrowings is a distinctive feature of Moroccan Darija, especially that of the northern cities, and one that most speakers of other varieties of Arabic would know to associate with Morocco. I've heard people associate it more with Moroccan Darija than with e.g. Algerian or Tunisian, even (tho' this is an association, not something that I've sought to substantiate empirically).

Tajine Qui Parle only lists طُموبيلة "Tomobila" and طُموبيل "Tomobil" for "voiture" ("car"); wiktionary indicates that سيارة "car" is used in Standard, Kuwaiti Gulf, and Moroccan Arabic (with expected differences in pronounciation), and also gives a couple different possible spellings for طمبيل "Tomobil" (which it lists as a word only in "Moroccan Arabic"); it gives سيارة ("siyyaara") as a Moroccan Arabic word, but notes that it is "uncommon."

the idea that a word of Standard Arabic origin is automatically "more Moroccan" than a word of French origin, despite that fact that as far as I can tell "Tomobil" is more distinctively Moroccan, is on its surface kind of bizarre, but it makes sense when you consider the recent colonial underpinnings of French borrowings into Moroccan Arabic. the post-colonial process of Arabisation is a process of nationalisation, of creating a national myth around (the repression of Amazigh identity and communist movements in favour of) a desired "Islamic" "Arab-ness"—which is, however, like Frenchness, a language and culture that was introduced or imposed on North Africa and is not "original" to it (not that any culture is completely "original" and free from shifting or borrowings!—rather that the "originality" of Arabic to Morocco seems to be a myth that is being drawn on here).

given that shows dubbed in Moroccan Arabic are to teach the public "good" spoken Darija, they can be analysed in terms of how the ethos of Arabisation connects education with nation: "generaliz[ing] the Arabic language" in order to both "democratiz[e] access to education and affirm[] the Arab identity of the Kingdom" (Youssef Sourgo, Morocco World News). and Arabisation also, of course, paradoxically relies on looking outside Morocco in order to institute Morocco's "Moroccanization":

After its independence, Morocco could not yet aspire to a successful arabization with the lack of professors of Arabic in the kingdom. To remedy this problem, Morocco hired professors from other countries, such as Egypt, Syria and Sudan. (ibid.)

it seems pertinent that, in a discussion about Arabisation, I once heard someone state that the removal of French from buildings and other public spaces was "good," and then also share with me a personal, familial myth that their family, like "all Arabs," had "come from the Middle East" (I think these are direct quotes from a conversation that took place in English?)

it should also be mentioned that words of Standard Arabic origin may be preferred even if the alternative is not (so far as I can tell) a European borrowing: Hall recounts one Moroccan woman noting approvingly that a dubbed Mexican show depicted a married woman who '“properly” referred to her mother-in-law as ‘ḥma:ti’ [حماتي]* instead of as ‘ʻduza’ [عدوزة] or worse ‘ʻguza’ [عݣوزة],' which latter two words the woman associated with 'a rural background and lack of education' (pp. 203-4). it's furthermore interesting to me that she described عݣوزة as "worse" than a word that's identical except for its inclusion of the gaf (ݣ; /g/; hard "g" sound), given that gaf is not in the Standard Arabic abjad, while dal (د; /d/) is!

*حما hma "in-law" (+ ة -a [singular feminine marker], which is then removed when the possessive is added) + تي -ty [1st-person singular possessive marker for a word ending in ة].

#Darija #Morocco #Arabisation

[beardedmrbean]

Former brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, 65, who lives in Sweden, is accused of "aiding and abetting" war crimes and could get a life jail sentence. 

The war between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and armed opposition groups, including Islamic State, erupted after the government repressed peaceful pro-democracy protests in 2011.

It has killed more than half a million people, displaced millions, and ravaged Syria's economy and infrastructure. 

Wearing a dark blue shirt, jeans and sneakers, Hamo listened carefully and took notes as prosecutor Karolina Wieslander read out the charges.

Wieslander said Hamo had contributed -- through "advice and action" -- to the Syrian army's warfare, which "systematically included attacks carried out in violation of the principles of distinction, caution and proportionality." 

"The warfare was thus indiscriminate," Wieslander told the court.

The charges concern the period of January 1 to July 20, 2012. The trial is expected to last until late May.

'Disproportionate'

The prosecutor said the Syrian army's "widespread air and ground attacks"  caused damage "at a scale that was disproportionate in view of the concrete and immediate general military advantages that could be expected to be achieved." 

In his role as brigadier general and head of an armament division, Hamo allegedly helped coordinate and supply arms to units.

Hamo's lawyer, Mari Kilman, told the court her client denied criminal responsibility.

"In any case he has not had the intent towards the main charge, that indiscriminate warfare would be carried out by others," Kilman said.

Kilman said the officer could not be held liable for the actions "as he had acted in a military context and had to follow orders."

Hamo also denied all individual charges and argued that Syrian law should be applied.

Several plaintiffs are to testify at the trial, including Syrians from cities that were attacked and a British photographer who was injured during one strike.

'Complete impunity'

"The attacks in and around Homs and Hama in 2012 resulted in widespread civilian harm and an immense destruction of civilian properties," Aida Samani, senior legal advisor at rights group Civil Rights Defenders, told AFP.

"The same conduct has been repeated systematically by the Syrian army in other cities across Syria with complete impunity."

This trial will be the first in Europe "to address these types of indiscriminate attacks by the Syrian army", according to Samani, who added that it "will be the first opportunity for victims of the attacks to have their voices heard in an independent court".

Hamo is the highest-ranking military official to go on trial in Europe, though other countries have tried to bring charges against more senior members.

In March, Swiss prosecutors charged Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of President Bashar al-Assad, with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

However, it remains unlikely Rifaat al-Assad – who recently returned to Syria after 37 years in exile – will show up for the trial, for which a date has yet to be set.

Swiss law allows for trials in absentia under certain conditions.

In November, France issued an international arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad, accusing him of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes over chemical attacks in 2013.

Three other international warrants were also issued for the arrests of Bashar al-Assad's brother Maher, the de-facto chief of the army's elite Fourth Division and two generals.

In January 2022, a German court sentenced former colonel Anwar Raslan to life jail for crimes against humanity. This was the first international trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria and was hailed by victims as a victory for justice.

#nunyas news

[shxinny]

La prostitución en los antiguos pueblos de Asia, Europa y África 

La labor sexual, o prostitución, ha sido un tema de debate en muchas sociedades, desde la criminalización hasta la aceptación social de esta profesión; algunes la defienden, diciendo que cada persona es libre de decidir sobre su cuerpo y hay que aceptar que la labor sexual es un trabajo que debe de ser remunerado y respaldado por el estado, además de ser reconocido como un trabajo ‘’formal’’. Otres tienen una visión en contra de esta, argumentando que la prostitución es una forma de explotación hacia los cuerpos femeninos, y, en otros argumentos, disidentes. 

En el contexto religioso volvemos a ver esta dinámica, habiendo religiones que no la criminalizan y otras que sí, incluso dentro de estas religiones podemos encontrar opiniones divididas. Por ejemplo, en el caso del islam, hay personas que no criminalizan a la prostitución, sino que la consideran un estilo de vida propio de esa persona y que no les incumbe, mientras que otres musulmanes nombran la labor como haram (حرام), es decir, pecado. Esta misma narrativa la podemos encontrar dentro del judaísmo, budismo, religiones judeocristianas y otras. 

En esta ocasión, no tan solo les hablaré de esto último, sino que también les hablaré sobre la evolución de la prostitución, la mirada que tenían los distintos pueblos hacia esta profesión y, por último, les hablaré sobre cómo se fue criminalizando de a poco por los diversos pueblos de Asia, África y Europa. 

Descargo de responsabilidad: toda la información puesta en este artículo tiene como único fin el esparcir información científica de índole arqueológica, antropológica e histórica. En ningún momento se pretende herir la sensibilidad o atacar las creencias y/o tradiciones de personas o de algún grupo religioso. 

La prostitución femenina y masculina en la antigua Roma y la Roma apostólica 

La prostitución en la antigua Roma no era ilegal, sin embargo, las prostitutas, se les veía muy mal. Podemos encontrarnos a todo tipo de personas ejerciendo este rubro, desde mujeres de clase alta hasta mujeres esclavizadas. Podemos encontrar siete tipos de prostitutas, estaban las delicatae, quienes eran cortesanas de clase alta que solo los más poderosos, económicamente hablando, podían comprar; famosae, mujeres que ofrecían sus servicios por mero placer propio; lupae, estas eran prostitutas que ejercían sus servicios en los lupanares, una especie de burdel de la antigua Roma; noctilucae, prostitutas que solo trabajaban de noche; cupae, mujeres que trabajan en las cauponae, lugares de comida rápida de la antigua Roma; fornicatrices, mujeres que lo hacían bajo los arcos de fornix; forariae, mujeres que ejercían la prostitución en los caminos que llevaban a Roma; bustuariae, estas mujeres ejercían la prostitución en los cementerios o cerca de estos. Para que los hombres romanos lograsen intimar con alguna de estas mujeres, estos debían de alquilarlas y su precio va a depender del tipo de trabajadora sexual que desee. 

En el siglo I d.e.c, el censo de trabajadoras sexuales en Roma había subido a treinta y dos mil (32.000) y, en los años treinta (30) d.e.c, las prostitutas tenían que pagar impuestos imperiales. Las mujeres que ejercían la prostitución como profesión tenían que registrarse con los ediles, quienes eran los encargados de la supervisión comercial, el mantenimiento y la salud pública de burdeles y baños públicos romanos. En el siglo IV d.e.c se habían registrado oficialmente más de cincuenta (50) burdeles en Roma y en la ciudad de Pompeya se tenían registrados ya más de treinta (30) burdeles. 

Los lugares más frecuentados por las lupai para ejercer su labor eran las fiestas religiosas, como el Ludi, por ejemplo, donde esperaban por las noches a la salida del anfiteatro a sus clientes. Ellas, las prostitutas, frecuentaban, más que nada, los festivales dirigidos hacia las diosas relacionadas a la fertilidad y/o al placer sexual, como los festivales de Venus y Flora. 

Finalmente, con la creación del catolicismo, la prostitución fue prohibida a pesar de que, aún en Roma, se veía a la sexualidad como algo cotidiano y era algo normal para el pueblo de Roma. Si antes, en la antigua Roma, se les veía a las lupai como algo malo y se les negaban varios derechos por ser mujeres, y prostitutas, con la llegada del catolicismo, gracias a Constantino, ellas perdieron todos los derechos. 

Las trabajadoras sexuales más importantes de Roma 

Volumna Citeris, nacida el año setenta (70) a.e.c, fue una actriz de mimo muy importante e influenciadora de la época, esto debido a las relaciones que tenía con Bruto, Marco Antonio y Cornelio Galo. 

La relación con Marco Antonio fue muy escandalosa en toda Roma debido a la reputación que esta tenía, pues Marco la tenía como su consorte y la llevaba consigo para todos lados; incluso podemos encontrar registros de cuando Marco Antonio decidió llevarse a Citeris a su viaje por la península Itálica. Fue gracias a estos vínculos, supuestamente amorosos, que Volumnia logró concretar vínculos con hombres tan importantes como lo fueron Herodes Ático, Marco Verrio Flaco, Marco Tulio Cicerón o Volumnio Eutraperlio. 

Debido a todos estos vínculos con hombres poderosos hizo que esta gran actriz romana tuviese una gran influencia política en Roma, pero en el año cuarenta (40) a.e.c, Volumna decidió dejar todos sus privilegios políticos y su estatus social para largarse junto a su enamorado, Marco Antonio, hacia las tierras fronterizas del norte, en la región del Rin. 

Otra trabajadora sexual muy importante para Roma fue Precia, una prostituta quién tenía una influencia política muy grande por las relaciones románticas y sexuales que tuvo con hombres muy importantes para el imperio romano, quién, entre ellos, estaba Pompeyo. 

Prostitución masculina en la antigua Roma 

Los trabajadores sexuales también tenían sus propios nombres, estaba el pathichi, prostitutos que hacían el rol del ‘’pasivo’’; el ephebi, prostitutos jóvenes, adolescentes; el fellatores, trabajadores sexuales que ofrecían el servicio del sexo oral; los espadones, prostitutos impotentes; y el amasii, prostitutos que eran comprados para relaciones prolongadas. 

En comparación con las prostitutas, los prostitutos ganaban muchísimo más, esto era debido a que el valor de sus servicios sexuales era mucho mayor y esto les otorgaba el privilegio de tener una vida más acomodada que la mujer prostituta. Sin embargo, para que se comprara un trabajador sexual, tenían que mantenerse arraigados a los estándares de belleza, tener una apariencia joven y lozana. Al igual que las mujeres, los hombres tenían más probabilidades de comprarse si su origen era exótico, mientras más lo fuese, mejor. 

Se tienen evidencias arqueológicas de las preferencias de los romanos a la hora de comprar a un prostituto, en su mayoría preferían a hombres egipcios y asiáticos, a pesar de que la mayor parte de estos eran romanos. 

Los lugares que más frecuentaban los prostitutos eran las tabernas, termas, circos, tabernas y burdeles mixtos, aunque también hay hipótesis de la existencia de burdeles que solo otorgaban los servicios de los hombres. 

Además de estos lugares, también había calles las cuales eran donde más pornoi ejercían su labor, estas calles se les conocía como statio cunnulingiorum. Aquí, los prostitutos les ofrecían a otros hombres practicarles sexo oral, una práctica que, si la ejercía un hombre, era ultrajante. 

La prostitución en la antigua Grecia 

La prostitución en Athenai (Ἀθῆναι), nombre que recibía la antigua Atenas de parte del pueblo de Hellas (Ἑλλά o Ἑλλάδος), era completamente legal y estaba regulada gracias al legislador Solón. La mayoría de las mujeres que ejercían la labor sexual en Helade eran esclavas obligadas a prostituirse o mujeres que debían de ganarse la vida de alguna manera. En Grecia había dos tipos de prostitutas, las hetairai (ἑταῖρα) y las pornai (πόρναι). 

Las pornai eran mujeres esclavizadas o que buscaban ganarse la vida y que no tuvieron el privilegio de encontrar un trabajo, estas se encontraban en burdeles o en las esquinas de las calles de la antigua Grecia. 

A diferencia de las pornai, las hetairai eran mujeres de clase alta que ejercían la prostitución solo por placer y el cambio de dinero, estas eran protegidas por el estado griego, mientras que solo la minoría de las pornai eran protegidas debido a que la gran mayoría de burdeles no estaban registrados en el estado de Athenai. 

Otra diferencia entre las pornai y las hetairai era el precio de sus servicios. Las pornai resultaban ser mucho más económicas que las hetairai, justamente por el nivel socioeconómico y sociocultural que tenían, además de que las pornai eran exhibidas desnudas, como si de un objeto se tratase, al igual que pasaba con todos los esclavos griegos. 

El precio de las pornai era de seis (6) oboloi (ὀβολόι), las monedas de la antigua Grecia. Pero no todas intercambiaban la labor sexual por oboloi, algunas preferían intercambiar sus servicios por bienes como comida, agua o algún otro objeto o bien que fuesen útiles para ellas. 

El trato y la visión de la mujer en Grecia 

Dependiendo del lugar en que nacieran, el estatus socioeconómico que tuvieran o de quién desciendan iban a tener un trato u otro, por lo general, en algunas ciudades de Helade, como lo fue Athenai, la mujer era vista como una sirvienta del hombre, cuyo objetivo de vida era la de criar y cuidar a los hijos del hombre y las labores del hogar, eran muy pocas las mujeres que lograban tener cargos importantes en la política, ya que, en su mayoría, para lograr tener esta influencia, debían de acostarse con hombres importantes o ser hijas de algún hombre importante para la política de Athenai, cosa que, de igual manera, no les garantizaba un trato digno. No tenían la palabra ni derecho al voto, pero si el respeto del pueblo. 

A nivel general, la mujer griega nunca tuvo derechos al voto ni voz en la política, no podían heredar tierras ni dinero de sus familias, así fueran hijas de un hombre importante para la política de Helade. Sin embargo, la mujer de Lakedaimonía (Λακεδαίμων), el antiguo nombre griego de Esparta, era vista como igual al hombre de ahí, ambas partes tenían la obligación de entrenar y saber empuñar un arma, estas podían heredar tierras y dinero, además de que no veían mal el que una mujer de Lakedaimonía bebiese alcohol. 

Fueron muy pocas las mujeres griegas que fueron recordadas en la historia de lo que hoy en día es Grecia; tenemos el ejemplo de grandes poetas como lo fue Safos de Lesbos, Areta de Cirene, quién fue una filosofa muy importante para Helade, las lideresas Gorgo de Esparta y Aspasia de Atenas o la médica Hagnódice de Atenas. 

Las prostitutas más famosas de Grecia 

No pueden faltar las mujeres que ejercieron la labor sexual en Grecia que fueron reconocidas por el poder e influencias políticas que tuvieron a pesar de ser prostitutas, aunque estas dos que serán nombras eran hetairai. 

Aspasia de Mileto fue una hetairas muy famosa, no tan solo por el amorío polémico que tuvo con Pericles, sino también por ser una de las más importantes filosofas de Grecia. 

Originaria de Mileto, Aspasia era descendiente de una familia muy bien acomodada, llegó a Athenai en barco acompañada de su cuñado y su hermana. Comenzó a rodearse de hombres que la deseaban por su gran belleza, pero no tan solo por esto, sino que también por sus grandes dotes de comunicación. 

Los hombres que la deseaban no eran sino los hombres más importantes de Grecia, relacionados a la política, entre ellos estaba Pericles, el gobernador de ese entonces. 

Aspasia de Mileto se enamoró de Pericles, un hombre muy importante para Atenas, para luego ser su amante y, finalmente, contraer matrimonio con él. Esta relación fue muy polémica, debido a que el pueblo de Athenai no veía bien este matrimonio, pues Pericles había pedido la mano de una hetairas, una prostituta. 

Debido a estas polémicas tan duras, Aspasia tuvo que soportar calumnias, burlas y ataques hacia su persona. Uno de los ataques más graves que sufrió fue cuando se le culpó de la guerra de Samos, calumnia que terminó en los tribunales de Atenas. 

Pericles defendió a su amada en este juicio, absolviéndola de todas estas acusaciones falsa que habían creado hacia ella por el simple hecho de ser una hetairas. 

Otra mujer muy importante para Grecia fue Filénide de Samos, una escritora de obras eróticas proveniente de Samos. Muchos arqueólogos e historiadores caen en la conclusión de que esta mujer nunca existió, sino que era un seudónimo de un hombre, mientras que otros rechazan esta hipótesis. 

La prostitución masculina en Grecia 

Podemos encontrarnos dos tipos de trabajadores sexuales en Grecia, tenemos los pornoi y a los hetairikoi (Λακεδαίμων). Los pornoi, pornos en singular, eran, en su mayoría, esclavos de guerra, estos debían de pagar impuestos para poder ejercer esta profesión, mientras que los hetairikoi, hetairikos en singular, eran amantes de algún hombre, este era un hombre mantenido por otro a cambio de favores sexuales exclusivos. 

La prostitución masculina en Helade no era ilegal, sin embargo, estos eran visto de muy mala manera, especialmente a los pornoi, debido a que se veía mal que el hombre ejerciera la homosexualidad pasiva dentro de una relación o que tomara el ‘’rol’’ de una mujer. Los familiares de estos pornoi tenían el derecho de desheredar a su hijo si así lo deseaban y sacarlo de su linaje familiar, además de que los pornoi perdían todos sus derechos y reconocimientos como ciudadanos de Helade. 

Uno de los pornoi más famosos de Grecia fue Fedón de Elis, quién se vio en la obligación de entrar en la prostitución para poder ganarse la vida hasta que Sócrates se apiadó de él y decidió sacarlo de ese tipo de vida. 

Los pornoi eran tan repudiados por la sociedad griega que, incluso, se desarrollaron insultos, que hoy en día se usan como ‘’slurs’’ hacia hombres gay, como lo fueron palabras como ‘’pathicos’’, pathicoi en plural, y ‘’euryproctos’’, euryproctoi en plural. Estos insultos eran destinados para hombres afeminados o, en su defecto, a la mayoría de pornoi que había en las ciudades de Helade. 

La prostitución en el antiguo Egipto 

En un artículo anterior les hablé de una manera muy resumida y rápida sobre como sobre la prostitución en Tawy (𓇾𓇾), nombre antiguo del antiguo Egipto. Conocimos sus nombres y sus labores; pero nunca está demás volver a repasar. 

A las mujeres que ejercían la labor sexual en Kemet (𓆎𓅓𓊖) era Kat Tahut (𓂓𓏤𓏏𓄹𓏏𓄿𓎛𓅱𓏏𓐏𓏦), cuya traducción al español es ‘’vulva pública’’, esto debido a que este tipo de mujeres se encontraban en las tabernas de los pueblos. 

La mirada hacia la prostitución no era muy buena, debido a que se creía que las kat tahut eran alienadas a la isefet (𓇋𓇩𓋴𓆑𓅪) y que alejaban a los hombres de la maat (𓆄), por lo que estas mujeres eran discriminadas y repudiadas por muchos hombres. 

Estas mujeres, para poder conseguir algún cliente, bailaban, se maquillaban y se vestían de una manera extravagante con el objetivo de poder seducirlos, esto se hacía en las llamadas ‘’casas de cerveza’’, una especie de bar del antiguo Egipto donde los hombres iban a beber y, sí así lo deseaban, acostarse con una de estas trabajadoras sexuales. 

Muchas de estas mujeres eran pobres, sin una calidad de vida muy buena y sin dinero para sobrevivir solas, y las casaban con hombres de mucho dinero a muy temprana edad, hasta que se formuló una ley que las protegía de los matrimonios forzados y la pedofilia. 

La ‘’prostitución sagrada’’ en Kemet 

Estas mujeres eran, usualmente, wab hemet (𓀆𓈞𓏏), palabra que significa ‘’sacerdotisa’’ en español, de algún dios o diosa relacionada a la sexualidad, como lo son Kadesh, Bes, Imen u otros. Muchas de estas wab hemet organizaban orgías de manera ritual para realizar una ofrenda a estos dioses, orgías donde participaban tanto hombres como mujeres. Era muy importante que, para que la ofrenda fuese dada con éxito, los hombres y las mujeres se hayan abstenido de tener sexo por una semana entera, esto no solo para ocasiones como estas, sino para dar todo tipo de ofrendas. 

Era muy importante para el pueblo de Kemet hacer la distinción entre las kat tahut y las wab hemet, pues, las sacerdotisas, eran una parte muy importante del culto a los dioses. Muchas de estas sacerdotisas eran mujeres de clase alta con grandes lujos monetarios de por medio que no dependían de u hombre o familiar masculino para poder subsistir. 

La mirada de Tawy hacia la mujer 

El antiguo Egipto tenía una visión de la mujer completamente distinta a la de los pueblos anteriormente nombrados. En Kemet, la mujer podía ser juzgada si esta llegaba a cometer algún crimen, podían tener trabajos como comerciantes, de transacciones o venta, además de que no dependían de ningún tutor legal, ya sea masculino o no, para ser representadas. No eran forzadas casarse con alguien, por lo que ellas podían buscar un esposo que les complaciera a ellas. 

Pero no todo es color de rosa, así como en Grecia y Roma, en Egipto, solo eran las mujeres acomodadas económicamente las que gozaban de estos ‘’privilegios’’, mientras que las mujeres pobres aún tenían muchos problemas políticos que afrontar. 

A nivel general, los problemas políticos relacionados a la mujer eran de índole laboral, monetario y sexual, y es en esta última en la que había un vaivén en las políticas egipcias antiguas, las violaciones, en algunas dinastías, eran, lamentablemente, bastante comunes y se temía mucho por esta situación, por lo que muchos faraones buscaron las formas de mantener más segura a la mujer en las calles. 

En el reinado de Ramsés II, las calles de Egipto se volvieron un lugar mucho más seguro para las mujeres, por lo que ya no había tantos crimines hacia estas. 

Siguiendo con la mujer de clase baja, o pobre, tenemos el caso de las mujeres viudas. Estas mujeres no tenían mucha suerte, incluso se les llegaba a ‘’revictimizar’’, dejándolas como mártires, especialmente de parte de los hombres egipcios. Hay papiros donde se nos muestra la frase ‘’yo ayudé a una viuda en necesidad’’, esto se debe a que las mujeres viudas pasaban hambre y, relacionado a lo tratado en este artículo, muchas se veían en la obligación de prostituirse. 

Las mujeres más importantes para el antiguo Egipto 

Si bien es cierto que la mujer no tenía mucho juego en el papel de reina más allá de ser la esposa real y estar ligada a ciertos aspectos políticos muy importantes relacionados al faraón, fueron muchas las mujeres que marcaron un antes y después para el reino de Egipto. 

Una de las mujeres más importantes para Egipto fue la reina-faraón Hatshepsut, ella fue una de las pocas mujeres en adoptar el cargo de reina y de faraón. 

El reinado de Hatshepsut tuvo un impacto muy grande para el pueblo de Tawy, desde reformas económicas hasta la finalización y creación de templos y tumbas en el balle de los reyes. 

La razón por la que ella tomó el cargo de faraón fue por el hecho de que Tutmosis III, su esposo y medio hermano, aún era demasiado joven para reinar, por lo que ella tomó su lugar. 

Hija de la gran esposa real Ahmose y del faraón Tutmosis I, Hatshepsut fue una reina-faraón muy importante, tanto así que incluso fue tomada como la encarnación de Ra en la tierra, teniendo varios títulos, entre ellos estaba el célebre título de ‘’La señora de las dos tierras’’, haciendo referencia a las diosas del alto y bajo Egipto, Wadjet y Nekhbet. 

Por otro lado, tenemos a la reina Ahhotep, hija de la gran esposa real Tetisheri y el faraón Sekenenre Tao I. 

Ahhotep fue la hermana y la gran esposa real de Sekenenre Tao II, junto a él tuvo tres hijos, el primero llamada Kamose, que tristemente falleció, Ahmose I Ahmose-Nefertari, quién, tiempo después, se convertiría en la gran esposa real de Ahmose I. Su esposo falleció en batalla, probablemente un enfrentamiento entre Egipto y los hicsos, y, poco tiempo después, fallece su hijo mayor, Kamose. 

Su hijo menor, Ahmose I, aún no alcanzaba la mayoría de edad para lograr comandar Egipto, por lo que ella, Ahhotep, decidió tomar el trono y comandar el país hasta que su hijo fuese mayor y tomara el trono en honor a su padre y madre. 

En este tiempo, Ahhotep relevó a tres faraones, además de liderar la batalla contra el pueblo hicso, batalla en la que salió victoriosa, y, gracias a este logró y sus años de mandato, logró ganar las ‘’moscas del valor’’, un collar que, por mucho tiempo, solo lo llevaron hombre y la reina Ahhotep fue la primera mujer en toda la historia de Egipto en portarlas gracias a su valor y astucia en la batalla para liberar a Egipto de los hicsos. 

Su hijo, Ahmose I, le rindió homenaje tras su muerte consagrando una estela en el templo de Amon-Ra en Karnak. En esta estela se describe el valor de la reina y su astucia, además del reconocimiento hacia ella tras lograr la estabilización del país tras la derrota del pueblo hicso. 

«Alabad a la señora del país, a la soberana de las riberas de las regiones lejanas, aquella cuyo nombre se alza sobre todos los países montañosos, que toma decisiones preocupándose por el pueblo. Esposa del rey y hermana del soberano ¡vida, salud fuerza! Hija de rey, venerable madre del rey, la que ha cumplido los ritos y se ha preocupado de Egipto, la que ha velado por sus tropas y las ha protegido, la que ha recuperado a sus fugitivos y agrupado a sus desertores. Ella pacificó el Alto Egipto y expulsó a los rebeldes». (Estela extraída de la página web Proyecto Djehuty) 

Prostitución masculina en el antiguo Egipto 

De la prostitución masculina no hay evidencias, sin embargo, al igual que la mal llamada ‘’prostituta sagrada’’, había sacerdotes que ejercían la labor sexual como ofrenda en los templos hacía dioses como Min, Mnevis o Amón, organizando orgías y ofrendando la masturbación en nombre de la fertilidad de los campos. En este tipo de ofrendas, era un sacerdote el que masturbaba a otro sacerdote, lanzando su esperma hacia la tierra a modo de ofrenda. 

La prostitución en la antigua Babilonia 

<<La costumbre más inmunda de Babilonia es la que lleva a todas las mujeres a sentarse en el templo de Afrodita (Ishtar) y tener relaciones con algún extraño por lo menos una vez en la vida... Da igual cuánto dinero sea; la mujer nunca se negará porque sería pecado. El dinero que se saque con este acto es sagrado. Tras la relación, una vez ha cumplido con su obligación para con la diosa, se vuelve a su casa.>> (cita de Heródoto extraída de la página web World History) 

La ‘’prostitución’’ en Babilonia pareciera solo haber tenido uso ritualista, cuyo fin era la de dar una ofrenda a la diosa Ishtar, asimilada por lo griegos con Afrodita y con Venus por los romanos. 

Eran, en su mayoría, mujeres quienes practicaban los rituales de fertilidad, mal llamada ‘’prostitución sagrada’’ o ‘’prostitución de templo’’, para esta y otros dioses relacionados a esta. Ellas tenían sexo con los hombres de alrededor del templo de Inanna para realizar estas ofrendas, tanto de parte de la mujer como de la del hombre, para poder tener hijos o para pedir por la buena cosecha. 

Estas mujeres tenían un nombre, este era harimtu (jarimtu), palabra que quizá esté emparentada con la palabra herem, que significa aislar o apartar. 

La prostitución en el antiguo Japón 

Se ha corrido la voz, por mucho tiempo, de que la palabra japonesa ‘’geisha’’ (芸者) significaba ‘’prostituta’’ o era el nombre que recibían las prostitutas en el antiguo Japón, pero esto es completamente falso. La palabra correcta para referirse a las trabajadoras sexuales del antiguo Japón es ‘’oiran’’ (花魁), que se podría traducir, lo más cercano, como ‘’prostituta’’. 

En Japón había tres rangos de oiran, estaban las tayū (太夫 o 大夫), era el rango más alto de estas mujeres. Estas mujeres eran las prostitutas de los daimyō (大名) y solo tenían como clientes a los hombres poderosos y de un alto poder adquisitivo; Sancha (さんちゃ), mujeres que solo tenían como clientes a los samuráis; Umecha (梅茶), mujeres que solo tenían como clientes a hombres burgueses de un gran poder adquisitivo; y las Kamuro (禿), niñas de diez (10) años cuyo fin era la de ser las aprendices de las oiran, asistiéndolas como si de una sirvienta se tratase, por lo que ellas aprendían todas las artes de sus madres. 

Estos rangos que dividían a las mujeres entre clases eran basados según su edad, personalidad, destreza, cultura y belleza. Muchas de estas mujeres fueron, en un inicio, infantes vendidas por sus tutores legales a los burdeles del pueblo antiguo japones y eran educadas para ejercer la profesión de una oiran, esta incluía el estudio del coito, seducción, juegos eróticos, placer sexual, danza, música, conversación, entre otros tipos de enseñanzas. 

Las tayū eran las oiran que sabían todas estas enseñanzas sumadas las enseñanzas del arte del té, la caligrafía y la poesía. 

Diferencias entre la geisha y la oiran 

Como se mencionó anteriormente, las geishas, en occidente y otras partes de oriente influenciadas por occidente, como es el caso de Abya Yala hispana y latina parlante, fueron, y son, confundidas con prostitutas, pero esto no es así. Ya mencionamos el nombre que tenían las trabajadoras sexuales en el antiguo Japón, pero ¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre una geisha y una oiran? La respuesta es más sencilla de lo que parece, y es que, a pesar de ambas se dedicaban al espectáculo, las geishas se dedicaban exclusivamente al espectáculo a manera de entretención del público en bares, burdeles o fiestas, sin tener ningún tipo de encuentro sexual ni generales con sus clientes, ya que estas solo se dedicaban al baile, mientras que las oiran eran las mujeres que se dedicaban a la labor sexual con otros hombres. 

La prostitución en la antigua Judea 

En el pueblo de Judea, el pueblo antiguo del imperio judío, la prostitución no estaba prohibida, pero si estaba mal vista. Se negaba el sexo antes del matrimonio, o, mejor dicho, se recomendaba no tenerlo, porque, en este entonces, la gente pensaba que el semen no podía regenerarse, por lo que el tener encuentros sexuales con prostitutas aseguraba el no tener una descendencia con la esposa después. Sin embargo, el tener este tipo de encuentros con alguna zonah (זָנָה), palabra de origen hebreo para referirse a una trabajadora sexual, no rompía las leyes establecidas por Moisés. 

Además de la palabra anteriormente dicha, zonah, también podemos encontrarnos otras palabras para referirse a una prostituta, como, por ejemplo, ‘’kedashah’’ (קדשה), palabra de origen hebreo cuyo significado podría ser ‘’consagrada’’ o ‘’reservada’’, una palabra usada para referirse a trabajadoras sexuales que eran del extranjero. Estas mujeres eran usualmente sacerdotisas de alguna divinidad dirigida hacia la fertilidad. 

Podemos encontrarnos también a prostitutos en Judea, a estos se les denominaba kadesh, aunque también podemos encontrarlos con la denominación de ‘’sodomita’’. 

‘’No profanarás a tu hija haciendo que se prostituya; no sea que la tierra se entregue a la fornicación, y se llene la tierra de pensamientos lascivos.  No ha de haber destinada a la prostitución entre las hijas de Israel; ni habrá destinado a pederastia entre los hijos de Israel.’’ (versículos extraídos de la cita hecha por la página web 321judaismo) 

Dentro de la Torá se nos habla que los padres no deben de fomentar la prostitución a las hijas de Israel (Jacob), esto debido a que va en contra de la ley de Moisés, ya que estaría profanando a su hija a costa de que esta se venda y/o se sexualice. 

La prostitución en la actualidad y la mirada de las sociedades católicas y católico-occidentales 

Como pudimos ver, la prostitución no es una profesión para nada nueva, es ejercida desde tiempos muy antiguos, donde incluso el politeísmo estaba vivo aún, sin embargo, podemos notar una cosa en la actualidad. Las trabajadoras sexuales siguen siendo vistas de una manera morbosa, deshumanizante y segregacionista discriminándolas por su labor y por esta razón no poder conseguir un trabajo ‘’formal’’, recibiendo insultos en las calles o siendo acosadas sexualmente, además de sufrir violaciones que luego la sociedad justifica con su trabajo. Podemos notar que, aún hoy en día, las trabajadoras sexuales no son dignas de respeto en las sociedades católicas, como Chile u Honduras, y católico-occidentales, como España o Francia. Esto es debido a toda la satanización de parte de la cultura católica, pues, con la llegada de esta religión a todo el mundo, muchas trabajadoras sexuales fueron discriminadas y penalizadas con la muerte, ya sea la decapitación, la horca o la quema, en especial las mujeres que entregaban la sexualidad como una ofrenda para sus dioses, bajo la excusa de ‘’adorar al Diablo’’. 

Conclusión 

Ya hemos llegado al final de este artículo, hasta aquí hemos visto la visión de la mujer en muchos pueblos antiguos de la historia, desde lo que hoy en día se les llaman Grecia e Italia (Roma) hasta lo que hoy conocemos como Palestina y Egipto, pasando incluso por los antiguos pueblos de lo que hoy son tierras chinas y japonesas, el cómo se ejercía la prostitución tanto de la parte masculina como femenina, cuál era su día a día, sus nombres como trabajadoras sexuales, las jerarquías entre ellas y el cómo sus pueblos de origen las veían, que, como pudimos notar, no eran muy queridas. 

Incluso pudimos como la mal llamada ‘’prostitución de templo’’ era ejercida por muchos y muchas sacerdotisas para dar una ofrenda sexual a algún dios o diosa en específico relacionada hacia la fertilidad del ser humano o de la tierra. 

Podemos notar como esta profesión no es para nada nueva, sino que siempre se ha practicado a lo largo de la historia, incluso como una práctica religiosa, una práctica que, lamentablemente, sería forzada a desaparecer a causa de la llegada del catolicismo. 

Fuentes 

Denova, R. (autora) y Baranda, R. (traductora). (19 de julio de 2021). La prostitución en el antiguo Mediterráneo. World History. https://www.worldhistory.org/trans/es/2-1797/la-prostitucion-en-el-antiguo-mediterraneo/  

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Alkmst. (14 de mayo de 2014). Las Prostitutas en el Derecho Romano. Arqueología e Historia del sexo. https://historsex.blogspot.com/2014/05/las-prostitutas-en-el-derecho-romano.html 

Alkmst. (15 de julio de 2014). La Prostitución masculina en Grecia y Roma. Arqueología e Historia del Sexo. https://historsex.blogspot.com/2014/07/la-prostitucion-masculina-en-grecia-y.html 

Puyadas, V. (n.d). 46. Volumnia Citéride. CONDITO FEMINAE I: Marginación y visibilidad de la mujer en el Imperio Romano. https://grupo.us.es/conditiofeminae/index.php/2022/03/02/46-volumnia-citeride/ 

Mark, J. J. (autor) y Baranda R. (traductora). (02 de julio de 2021). La prostitución en la antigua Atenas. World History. https://www.worldhistory.org/trans/es/2-28/la-prostitucion-en-la-antigua-atenas/#:~:text=La%20prostituci%C3%B3n%20en%20la%20antigua%20Atenas%20era%20legal%20y%20estaba,(480-323%20a.C.). 

Cartwright, M. (autor) y Baranda R. (traductora). (27 de julio de 2016). La mujer en la antigua Grecia. World History. https://www.worldhistory.org/trans/es/2-927/la-mujer-en-la-antigua-grecia/ 

López Melero, R. (transcriptora) y Miloro, C. (locutora). (23 de febrero de 2022). Heteras, las cortesanas de Grecia. National Geographic. https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/heteras-cortesanas-grecia_17148 

Mas, L. (13 de marzo de 2023). Aspasia, la mujer que conquistó la Atenas clásica. National Geographic. https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/aspasia-mujer-que-conquisto-atenas-clasica_17466 

Priego, JJ. y Sanz, J. (19 de febrero de 2016). Prostitución, femenina y masculina, en la antigua Roma. Historias de la Historia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfDe6PjoWZI 

Huertas López, L. (31 de octubre de 2020). Cómo vivían las mujeres en el antiguo Egipto? - Mujer egipcia antigua. Laura Egiptología. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfke1NNf5I 

Huertas López, L. (23 de enero de 2023). La fascinante historia de Hatshepsut. Laura Egiptología. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0poLJF7ND4 

Eduardo. (16 de febrero de 2023). La prostitución en el antiguo Egipto. Arqueo Blog. http://arqueoblog.com/la-prostitucion-en-el-antiguo-egipto/ 

Baird Rattini, K. (n.d). ¿Quién fue Hatshepsut?. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/historia/quien-fue-hatshepsut 

(n.d). Reinas. Proyecto Djehuty. https://proyectodjehuty.com/las-reinas/ 

Mark, J. J. (autor) y Padillas Sánchez, N. (traductora). (22 de octubre de 2022). Heródoto sobre Babilonia. World History. https://www.worldhistory.org/trans/es/2-84/herodoto-sobre-babilonia/ 

¿Vírgenes o meretrices? La prostitución sagrada en el Oriente antiguo. Rubio, G. (n.d). 

(n.d) Oiran. Japón Secreto. https://japon-secreto.com/tag/oiran/ 

Britez, D. (12 de agosto de 2017). Oiran y Geisha, las 7 diferencias. Japón. https://mirandohaciajapon.com/oiran-y-geisha-las-7-diferencias/ 

Henrique, K. (n.d). ¿Cómo era el sexo en el Japón feudal? Suki Desu. https://skdesu.com/es/como-fue-el-sexo-en-japon-feudal/ 

(21 de abril de 2016). El mundo del sexo en Japón. Cultura Asiática. https://culturaasiatica.com/el-mundo-del-sexo-a-traves-del-arte-en-el-japon-del-periodo-edo-comparado-con-la-actualidad/ 

Stroh Kaufman, M. (31 de enero de 2014). Prostitución y Tora. 321juadismo https://321judaismo.com/estudio-del-judaismo/preguntas-y-respuestas/prostitucion-y-tora/ 

#antiguo egipto #arqueologia #sexualidad #historia antigua #antigua palestina #antigua Judea #antigua grecia #antigua roma #antiguo japón #antigua china #antigua babilonia

[merelyplxyers]

@assfcrdays Arthur wasn't usually the type to micromanage - not unless he had reason to be. Sure, he had full trust in his staff's abilities; after all, he was picky with who he hired for the hotel, and he took pride in how every part of the etablishment ran smoothly to ensure the guests' satisfaction. However, sometimes an occasion arose that required him personally to ensure particularly special service was provided when necessary. Basim was a client that required such special attention. After all, the hotel wasn't hosting royalty every day. Arthur had ensured to prepare for any request the guest may have, communicating the requirements for the room as well as he possibly could before the man even had arrived. And now that Basim was here, Arthur took it as his personal mission to fulfil the guest's every desire. "I hope everything has been to your liking so far, Your... Majesty?" Mentally scolding himself for not being certain about the appropriate titles, the hotelier showed no sign of that as he kneeled between the other's legs, looking up at him with a subtle smile. He was going to provide full service, and that meant nearly nothing was off the table. Eager to show just how important the client's satisfaction was to him, Arthur carefully gripped at Basim's pants, pulling them down, until the man's cock sprang free from its confines. Truly worthy of a royal, Arthur noted mentally, humming with arousal as he leaned in and traced the length of the shaft with his tongue, paying close attention to what brought pleasure to the prince and how he could be of the most impressive service.

Basim loved travelling. Seeing other places, learning about different cultures and making friends were some of his favourite past times. And thanks to his more than generous trust fund, he could travel in style. This particular hotel had been recommended to him by a former lover he met in Zürich. And after telling his PA to arrange his next stay there, a part of him had half expected that his very long and extremely detailed list of requirements would not be met. Like the fact that he didn't want a normal couch, preferring a lower seating area with lots of pillows, or the fact he demanded art pieces to be replaced with islamic art. But from the moment he left the limousine to enter the place he knew that albeit this was not his usual place, people were not only respectful and kind, but even the smallest detail on his requirements list was not just fulfilled, it was exceeded by a long shot. And all thanks to Arthur Pence, who seemed to not only read the requirements but anticipated what else he could desire and provided before Basim could even realize that wish had settled in his bones. The suite was a real masterpiece, and he had felt right at home from the moment he walked in, feeling a calm wash over him that he usually only knew in one of the paradise gardens of his palace. And now that he had settled in and another kind of appetite had taken over, Arthur yet again was so eager to provide, even if it meant going down on his knees and sucking dick. "It is, Mr. Pence", he said, looking down at the ravishingly beautiful man between his legs, leaning back against soft pillows that had been chosen for his seating area. One of his hands was resting on his thick thigh, the other on the backrest, half hard dick revealed to the other. Basim let out a harsh breath between gritted teeth, not having fucked in over 24 hours putting him more on edge than usual.

"And behind these walls and while choking on my dick, I am Basim for you"

#assfcrdays||basim|| behind these walls #assfcrdays||basim #assfcrdays #basim

[dwellordream]

“…Francesco’s account reveals that he had some understanding of Islam, but what he says is also at times incorrect and insulting. Towards the end of this work, he includes a section called The Contrasts, where he sets out to explain what made Muslims different from European Christians. This really is only one person’s views, one that is shaped by his own religious faith and that he was an outsider living in the Middle East. Here is what he writes:

When they pray they turn to the South towards the Tomb of Mohammed while we turn to the East and the Jews to the West.

In reality, Muslims pray toward Mecca, while Jewish people would have prayed in the direction of Jerusalem.

The men do housework and carry water and weave, and the women do the trading.

The women carry burdens on their shoulders and the men on their heads.

The men eat seated, the women standing.

Fathers are bound to feed their daughters but not their sons; and more the bastard than the legitimate.

These four points, and others further on, reveal much about what Francesco really thinks is different and wrong with Arabic people – to him they are too feminine, and women are given roles and rights that should only be reserved for men.

The barbers when at work sit and the clients stand.

They drink all day except when they eat.

They continually wash their hands, and their hands are always dirty.

This seems to be a reference to the Islamic practice of washing one’s face, hands, arms, and feet before prayers.

The women wear only one dress, the men wear three or four.

We take off our headgear in sign of respect, they take off their shoes.

The women wear trousers, and the men go without them.

In Lent we eat during the day and they fast during the day and eat like beasts all night.

This refers to Ramadan, a month-long celebration for Muslims where they fast during the day and will have feasts after sunset.

We address a letter when it is written, they begin with the address.

We urinate standing, they squatting as females.

We like dogs, they cats.

Having pets was common in the medieval world, and while the reputation of dogs and cats vary in different parts of the world, in neither culture it was universally so.

We drink wine, they water.

We are guided by the sun, they by the moon.

This is probably a reference to how the European calendar was solar-based, but the Islamic one is lunar-based.

We eat from on high, they from the ground.

We sleep undressed, they, men and women, dressed.

We value horses, they mares.

We girdle ourselves over the clothes, they under.

They write from right to left, we the reverse.

They wear linen, we wear wool.

Francesco does not take into account the differences in climate between Europe and the Middle East.

They sell chickens by measure, and fruits and vegetables they sell by weight on the balance.

They carry to market birds in a sack and figs in a cage.

We despise imbeciles and they revere them as saints.

Perhaps Francesco is referring to Sufi practitioners, who follow a more mystical path of Islam. Moreover, he seems to be oblivious to how his own Franciscan order was derided by many of his fellow Christians.

Slaves with us are servants, with them lords.

Later on Francesco has to make a detailed explanation of who the Mamluks were, and offers a less-than-accurate history of their rise to power in Egypt and Syria. Many enemies of the Mamluks often disparaged their origins as slaves.

Men give dowry to the wives, and we do the opposite.

Francesco also offers more details on this, finding this way more “just, reasonable and proper’ then the Italian practice where the parents of the bride had to offer a dowry to obtain a marriage. He explains why: “First, it would be a means whereby many poor girls could marry, who through poverty cannot marry, and so remain single in danger of sin and cause sin to others.”

We repudiate the wife, they the husband.

His sister also wanted to know about how wives can repudiate their husbands, by which he means they divorce their husbands, and Francesco responds by explaining this can happen in cases of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Divorce was actually fairly common in medieval Egypt, and both men and women could initiate it.

Men go barefooted, the women wear light shoes.

The men are beautiful; the women are most ugly and small.

The men wear clothes cut low, the women cut close to the neck.

The men wear a veil on the head, the women a cap.

The men never spit, the women do.

The men like cats, the women dogs.

Francesco sums it up by concluding “if they could they would walk backwards just to be different from us.”

Francesco’s list is very surprising – one would expect that this Franciscan friar would write about religious differences – instead, it is often just about daily life and trivial topics. However, there is often an underlying view that traditional gender roles were not being followed by medieval Muslims. More than a dozen of his contrasts involve women doing or wearing something that goes against what he thinks should be the proper way as found in Francesco’s homeland.

Not everything that Francesco finds to be different is to him a bad thing, and his view of Muslims isn’t always negative (at times he is far more critical of other Christian sects that lived in the region). But it is telling that he views the differences as somehow being in opposition to his own culture, as if it was somehow planned to be that way. One wonders how perplexed Francesco would have been if his travels took him to more distant lands and cultures.

This list is perhaps even more revealing in how much it shows the differences between medieval people and us. Francesco Suriano would see our modern-day lifestyles and habits as being very much ‘the other’, critiquing the way we dressed, ate, and slept. Who knows how upset he might become to learn that some people had pet fish!”

- Peter Konieczny, “The Differences between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages”

#medieval #christian #muslim #religion #history

[herucakra]

The countries proud of their Christian values of love, are the ones dropping bombs everywhere.

The countries proud of their Islamic values of justice, are the ones institutionalize injustice among their own people.

Corporates claiming values of integrity and client focus are the first ones to breach them.

That's the reason I don't provide advice to people on behaviors. I usually get the karma later on, to see if I walk the talk.

#life quotes #quotes #motivation #karma #fact of life #funny #laugh #comedy #islam #monotheism #christianity #religion #abrahamaic

[eretzyisrael]

“This is not a battle of good versus evil,” Ramzi Kassem wrote in an op-ed that appeared on September 17, 2001. “The perpetrators were probably not driven to their actions by some intrinsic evil or inherent hatred of the good United States.”

He went on to argue that the Al Qaeda attack a week earlier was the result of the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies.”

Two decades later, Kassem, now a CUNY law professor and prominent terror lawyer, claimed in a Washington Post op-ed that, “since 9/11, the government has consistently used the law to enable, operationalize and justify the violence it has deployed against Muslims.”

And that, “the legacy of 9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims the world over who have largely paid the price of American power and prosperity.”

Next year, Ramzi Kassem was named by the Biden administration as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council.

A Syrian national who grew up in Lebanon, Iraq and other Islamic terror states, arriving in this country to attend college and spread terrorist propaganda before becoming a terror lawyer, Kassem seems like a national security risk rather than a White House Policy Council adviser.

Ramzi Kassem had boasted of having “held the record for the longest delayed security clearance in the Guantánamo setting”, but even that does not seem to have dissuaded the Biden administration from bringing him on board.

While some leave behind the extremist views of their college years, Ramzi Kassem instead built a career around them, becoming a noted terrorist lawyer whose Gitmo inmate clients included Ahmed al-Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist and the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the Pentagon, and who was himself a key figure in the bombing of an oil tanker.

Some lawyers represent paying clients, but Kassem, like many terror lawyers, worked pro-bono, and his advocacy echoed his pre-existing support for Islamic terrorism.

In his columns, as in his activism, Ramzi Kassem repeatedly justified terrorism as a reaction to its victims. “Terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause.”

While at Columbia University, Kassem co-founded Turath, an association of Muslim students, and then Qanun at Columbia Law. A fellow student described these hateful groups as having brought “under the guidance of Mr. Kassem… speakers to this campus that support violence against American and Israeli civilians… defended the genocidal program of Hamas.”

The Columbia letter noted that, “one speaker, disavowed by many of America’s pro-Palestinian activists, prior to being invited to Columbia, had said that Jews exist only to ‘dip their matzahs in the blood of Palestinian children.’”

This antisemitic blood libel didn’t seem to have interfered with Kassem’s career prospects.

Kassem’s college obsession with Jews extended even to condemning Columbia’s dining hall for serving “Israeli Wrap” sandwiches and demanding that the name be changed to the “more inclusive” Middle-Eastern Wrap. But not all of Kassem’s hostility to Jews was non-violent.

In his own columns for the university paper, Kassem boasted of throwing stones at Israel.

“On a sunny day in early August, I headed down to the Lebanese-Israeli border at Fatima’s Gate with busloads of Palestinian adolescents from the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, and we threw some stones,” he described. “Lebanese civilians, young and old, were playfully going through the motions… Having lived through my fair share of Israeli bombardments, raids, and sieges, I figured I might as well partake in the festivities.”

Even more violent acts of antisemitic murder found a ready defense.

“Some Palestinians resort to terrorism for many of the same reasons that people from various backgrounds have in the past: namely, despair and much endured suffering,” Kassem argued. “One must ask oneself how and why a human being was pushed to the limit and saw no way out of a situation short of blowing himself or herself up.”

These defenses of Islamic terrorism came within the larger context of calls to eliminate Israel and accusations of ethnic cleansing, while blaming Islamic violence against Jews, even before the creation of Israel, on its Jewish victims.

Kassem was named a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a project of a foundation by Soros’ brother, notorious for its cultivation of political extremists hostile to America and its values, and worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a former Communist organization.

After law school, Ramzi Kassem founded Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) at CUNY to provide free legal aid to Muslims accused of terrorism.

The City University of New York had become notorious for its antisemitic atmosphere and Kassem signed on to a letter in defense of antisemitic Islamist activism alongside known hate groups and terrorist support organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine, Al-Awda, Within Our Lifetime, and Samidoun: designated by Israel as a terrorist organization.

The letter accused Jews of using antisemitism to “repress activism and harass and threaten Palestinian students and Muslim students”.

Across the decades, Kassem’s college advocacy against Jews had come full circle from student to professor. And his war against this country has taken him from Gitmo to Washington D.C.

The Biden administration chose to elevate a vocal advocate for Islamic terrorists as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council at a time when there are grave concerns about the penetration of terrorists through the unguarded southern border.

The Biden administration claims that it wants to protect the homeland and that it supports Israel. Putting Ramzi Kassem on its Domestic Policy Council shows those assertions to be lies. Its Policy Council includes a man who advocated for Gitmo terrorists and threw rocks at Israel.

Ramzi Kassem’s presence on driving the immigration agenda at the White House Domestic Policy Council is hard evidence that the Biden administration is putting the rights of Muslim terrorists ahead of the safety and welfare of Americans.

The White House Domestic Policy Council coordinates and develops the Biden agenda. Including a vocal activist against national security will have consequences. And the Biden administration will not be able to play innocent when one of the Islamic terrorists it allows into the country kills Americans.

This article was originally published in World Israel News and can be viewed here.

#ramzi kassem #biden administration #immigration policy

[saharathorn]

@dougielombax I’m making this a separate post bc it’s a lot of info but here it is:

Jews originated in what we call the land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). The first Jewish kingdom, the United monarchy, later split into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. The northern kingdom was destroyed by the Assyrians, and its population was dispersed. The southern kingdom of Judah remained a client state. Israelites, as the people were called, composed of 12 tribes.

In the South, the two remaining tribes which were not exiled by the Assyrians were Judah and Benjamin (as well as some members of Levi, which traditionally did not have any land or territory). The tribe of Judah was the most influential of the tribes, and is the origin of the English word “Jew.”

Over several centuries of invasions, war, and expulsions, Jews left, and the region’s demographics shifted over time. Christianity became the predominant religion for several centuries, and after the spread of Islam, it became a majority Muslim and Arabic-speaking region.

Eretz Yisrael has intense spiritual importance for us, and at the end of our Seders every Passover, we say “Next Year in Jerusalem,” as a tradition of our desire to return.

[hammadagency22]

How to Start Content Writing.

By Maksudul Islam | 05-10-2022 | Content marketing

Writing content has never been easy, there are some things that professional writers do. For being a professional content writer the main thing you need to learn is KEYWORD RESEARCH. Let’s see how to start content writing. First, we need to know what is content and what is content writing.

What is content?

Content is anything you produce that your audience can consume with its senses.

What is content writing?

Content writing is the process of planning, writing, and publishing web content. 

Content writers are the storytellers of their content. Anybody can write content. But anybody can’t write quality content. Content is everything but quality content is king. A content writer needs the knowledge of SEO process also.

What is SEO?

SEO means Search Engine Optimization. It means the process of improving your sites/profiles/contents to increase its visibility when people search for products or services related to your content.

How does SEO work?

SEO works by optimizing websites/profiles' content, conducting keyword research, and earning inbound links to increase that content's ranking and the website/profile's visibility.

If you want to be a quality content writer at first you need to learn SEO. For starting content writing you have to know the types of content. There are many types of content.

Types of content:

Image content.

Social media post/text content.

Video content.

Website blogging.

There are some most important skills you need to become a content writer.

Having writing skills

Find Your Niche

Time management.

Problem-solving.

Grammar and vocabulary skills.

Research skills.

SEO and content strategy.

Creative writing.

Editing.

A content writer needs to understand that different client have different needs.

You have to know about the fields of content writing.

Fields of content writing:

Blogging.

Social media posts.

News writing.

Creative contents.

Articles.

E-Books.

White papers.

Case studies.

Newsletters.

Press Releases.

Product descriptions.

Whether you are writing content the following tips will help you organize your work for enhanced output:

Study about product/niche.

Choose your platform.

Research your competitors.

Find your audience. 

Start Writing.

Create a killer title.

Know relevant content writing formats.

Share your experiences and stories.

Ask for a comment.

Write content with easy words.

Improve readability.

No grammatical mistakes.

Collect all expert opinions.

Focus on benefits.

Edit and proofread your work.

Promote your work.]

Keep learning.

Be patience.

There are some on-page SEO factors. These are very important parts of content writing. A successful content writer always follows these rules and applies them to their content. If you want to be a professional content writer you must have to follow these SEO factors.

Some on-page SEO factors:

A blog should contain at least 300 to 1000 words.

Use your keyword in the title.

Use your keyword in the URL.

Maintain keyword density.

Use keywords in the image's ALT tag.

Shorten paragraphs.

Use bullet points & numbers.

Use Image/Video content.

Use internal & external links.

Content writing is very very important for any kind of business. Quality content is a valuable way to connect customers with your brand. There are many benefits of content writing for a business. Content writing boosts Search Engine Optimization, Sales, and Conversion rates. It represents your brand and retains viewers. Content writing helps you to reach new audiences. 

Start content writing:

Start content writing with blog. Blogs are impressive way for learning content writing. By writing blogs you can understand how Search Engine works. You can improve your writing skills.

Once you are confident you can start freelance writing. There are many famous freelancing sites. Like: Fiverr, Upwork, Problogger, Trvelancer, Worknhire etc.

Some tools to optimize your content writing experience:

Wordpress - https://wordpress.org/

Yoast - https://yoast.com/

Google docs - https://docs.google.com/

Grammarly - https://www.grammarly.com/

Semrush - https://www.semrush.com/

Canva - https://www.canva.com/

Buzzsumo - https://buzzsumo.com/

Hootsuite - https://www.hootsuite.com/

CoSchedule - https://coschedule.com/

Medium - https://medium.com/

To improve your writing work you must take feedback seriously. Paying attention to the critics is the best way for improve your content writing skill.

Thank You....

#content marketing #content writing #how to start content writing #how to start #SEO #2022 #blog #canva #wordpress