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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection 2013-09-26 ]
「Singular accounts of necrophilia in history are sporadic, though written records suggest the practice was present within Ancient Egypt. Herodotus writes in The Histories that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for 'three or four days' before giving them to the embalmers. Herodotus also alluded to suggestions that Greek tyrant Periander had defiled the corpse of his wife, employing a metaphor: 'Periander baked his bread in a cold oven.' …Hittite law the 16th century BC through to the 13th century BC explicitly permitted sex with the dead.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia 2015-11-21, emphasis ours ]
Before decrying, note that cannibalism, torture until death, and necrophilia were portrayed in the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
And apparently, necro-feelie-ya is still alive and well in the 21st century:
「A Los Angeles police officer has been charged with a felony after footage captured by a body camera allegedly showed him fondling a deceased woman's breasts.」
[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-cop-david-rojas-arrested-for-allegedly-fondling-dead-womans-breasts/ 2019-12-13 ] (albeit a mild case, in comparison to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, to be sure) by the Brothers Grimm in their children's tale.
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Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system.
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
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