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Venus: A Biography

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Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. What drives men and women to such madness? Scientists serve us some tripe on hormones and biological impulses, but our ancestors knew the truth. Love and beauty, and the all consuming desire they produce, are the products of a sensual goddess and her boy archer. Really, who could believe otherwise? Andrew Dalby leaves all doubt behind as he serves us a highly readable biography of the goddess Venus...

 

...read the full review of Venus: A Biography by Andrew Dalby

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Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it. What drives men and women to such madness? Scientists serve us some tripe on hormones and biological impulses, but our ancestors knew the truth. Love and beauty, and the all consuming desire they produce, are the products of a sensual goddess and her boy archer. Really, who could believe otherwise? Andrew Dalby leaves all doubt behind as he serves us a highly readable biography of the goddess Venus...

 

...read the full review of Venus: A Biography by Andrew Dalby

 

 

Cupid/Eros was not always the cuddly boy archer. According to Hesiod's theogony he was originally one of the primary forces of the universe, along with Tartarus, Gaia and Erebus. Without him Aphrodite/Venus would never have been born.

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The opening paragraph was intended to be more a tongue-in-cheek teaser than a serious summary of the mythological corpus. ;)

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Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it.
Why the third person?

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Sex. Despite several potentially hazardous side effects, people still seem to practice it regularly, and pursue it with vigor when they are not receiving it.
Why the third person?

 

Ursus is speaking as an outsider to "that business" ;)

 

F ;) rmosus

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