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LETTERS, Page 12Aphrodite Leads Us On
Jesse Birnbaum's humorous, sexy article "Aphrodite Was No Lady"
(ESSAY, April 24) was in itself an aphrodisiac.
Phil Kantz
Chicago
Your Essay indicates that Aphrodite was a "Goddess of Naughty
Sex" and therefore responsible for mankind's sexual hang-ups.
Aphrodite represents the trinity of virgin, mother and crone. She
was ruler of birth, death, life, love, fate and time, and as humans
resigned themselves to these uncontrollable factors, they were
eased by Aphrodite's sensual mystique. She also ruled past, present
and future and embodied the force of preserver, creator and
destroyer. Birnbaum's banal attempt to use her as a scapegoat for
culturally created neuroses is discouraging.
Julia L. Burke
Blacksburg, Va.
Essayist Birnbaum came close to reviving an aged limerick about
Aphrodite. For old times' sake, here it is:
There once was a sculptor named Phidias
Whose manners in art were invidious:
He carved Aphrodite
Without any nightie,
Which startled the ultrafastidious.
Harold J. Flinn
Madison, Tenn.
In your listing of aphrodisiacs, you neglected to mention the
most potent, most sought after and most widely consumed aphrodisiac
of all, the food of the gods: theobroma -- chocolate!
Lydia Sym Walpole
Hicksville, N.Y.