The Mother Goddess Asherah (known by many names throughout the world) was worshiped in various ways, including through ritual sex. Although she was believed to be the God Baal’s mother, she was also his mistress. Pagans practiced “sympathetic magic”, that is, they believed they could influence the gods’ actions by performing the behavior they wished the gods to demonstrate. Believing the sexual union of Baal and Asherah produced fertility, their worshipers engaged in sex to cause the gods to join together, ensuring good harvests. The priest or a male member of the community represented Baal while the priestess or a female member of the community represented Asherah. One of the goals of this ritual was to fully dissolve the ego and surrender to embodying the Goddess and her Son-God lover in sexual union. To transform into these powerful and primal divine feminine and masculine archetypes, producing a union where both partners were able to be vulnerable and connect to the masculine and feminine within themselves and the other.
There is some debate, but a few scholars believe that several pagan cultures around the world took this idea and practice of “sympathetic magic” even further. In the absence of modern taboo, they believed that sexual relationships between pagan mothers and their sons was a holy union, which pleased Asherah and Baal (causing them to mate), and created an even more powerful form of magic. Cleopatra famously married her son and described their relationship as being akin to Isis and her son Horus, and many statues and artworks from Greece to India depict a fertile Venus goddess with her attentive child and lover. This practice may have been even more common in ancient matrilineal clans where they lived in small, close-knit kinship groups, the patriarchal figure of the father was not as important or present, and fathers’ true identities were often unknown. In some cases where fathers would leave or die in hunting or combat, sons would take their place as their mother’s lover. It is possible some sons would also have sex with their mothers with their father’s knowledge and blessing. After all, these were small tribes that needed more people and prized fertility above almost all else, so it did not matter if a son was breeding a child into his mother. Especially when in terms of age a teenage boy and his mother would both be at the peak of their sexual libido and would naturally be attracted to and close to each other. At this time people were unaware of the higher risk of genetic abnormalities that can occur when a mother has a baby with her own son. In fact, it may have been seen as normal, even divine and celebrated. In these clans it was also common for older women to care for, teach, and take younger men and boys as their lovers, embodying the role of Mother Goddess Asherah.
This is a theory for why mother son porn has currently become so popular. It is connecting us to something very primal and ingrained (Oedipus complex) which may have played a large part in the history or our ancient ancestors who worshipped the Great Mother Goddess and her Son God lover. And the special closeness and unconditional love of the mother son bond is something many men and women both long for and can be easily sexualized. Just think about Back to the Future, Boardwalk Empire, Bates Motel, Nowhere Boy, Big Mouth, or any number of modern shows and movies where mother son sexual tension is explicit or just beneath the surface. Just because we now know that a mother and son having a baby is risky doesn’t make it or the idea of it any less desirable. In fact the taboo combined with trying to suppress our primal and natural urges for procreation regardless of relationship makes it extra hot and appealing to many people. Not to mention it is porn where women are usually seen as powerful, seductive, fertile, mature goddesses who are in a sweet and maternal relationship with their younger (usually not overly macho) boy, and not like a lot of porn that degrades women or gives them no agency. What do you think??
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