Description
Dr. R. Brasch, an eminent Australian rabbi and an authority on origins of any and all kinds, explores the multiple manifestations of sex as they occur in our speech, symbolism, and tradition.
• Why do bride and groom avoid each other on their wedding day until the services begin?
• Why do X's in correspondence stand for kisses?
• Who invented the chastity belt?
• How did the "right of the first night" come about?
• Why, of all leaves, did Adam choose a fig?
• Why are red-light districts red and not some other color?
• Why is fornication etymologically derived from the Latin word for arch?
• Why are some words masculine and some feminine?
• Who were the sodomites of Sodom?
• Why was a lap dog a symbol of adultery?
• How old is birth control?
Dr. Brasch answers these questions and a thousand more in the witty, delight-fully informed fashion that has always fascinated his readers.
ISBN:0207127425
