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Elephants and the art of eroticism

It is a common mistake to associate eroticism with a recent era, relegating its ancient variants to a practically playful order. Eroticism was always there, active and widely present in the refined minds of any era.

One of these prodigious intellects was that of Elefantis, a Greek poetess from the 1st century AD, author of the most impressive sexual manual of antiquity, and who, like the rest of her works, has not survived oppression and the passage of time. time.

Everything we know about this wonderful woman is through the mouths of third parties. Like Suetonius, who in his work De vita Caesarum (Life of the Caesars) mentions that the abominable emperor Tiberius took the complete works of Elephantinus to his retreat in Capri, perhaps to experience first-hand the acrobatics and voluptuousness suggested by the poetess. .

Another mention, perhaps more direct, comes from a mysterious book: The Priapeia, a work in honor of the phallic Priapus; a set of nine poems about which no one has been able to determine their author, or authors, and where the enigmatic Elephantis is mentioned:

Obscene rigido deo tabellas
dicans ex Elephantidos libellis
dat donum Lalage rogatque, temptes,
si pictas opus edat ad figuras.

We know nothing about the life of Elefantis. His name appears and disappears in superficial, ghostly mentions; as if it were a rare infectious spectrum. From Suetonius we know that she wrote a treatise on cosmetics and a manual that expands on the benefits of abortion for women with limited economic and social resources. The rest is preserved in meticulous silence.

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The last worthy quote about Elefantis comes from the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martial, who wrote, referring to the novelty of the Priapeia:

Quales nec Didymi sciunt puellae,
Nec molles Elephantidos libelli,
Sunt illic Veneris novae figurae.

Some scholars surmise a curious detail in the last verse. Where he says novae figurae, that is, “new forms”, it would actually be a copyist’s error. What should really be read is novem figurae, “nine forms”; in fact, the Nine Ways of Sex or nine sexual positions proposed by Elefantis to explore something that women of that time, and perhaps of all times, rarely experience: the orgasm.

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