Song of Solomon
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Sex in the Song of Solomon

  1. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine." A fitting beginning for a pornographic poem. 1:2

  2. "He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts."  1:13

  3. "I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." 2:3

  4. "His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me." She asks not to be disturbed "till he please." 2:6-7

  5. Our heroine takes her lover into her mother's bedroom and asks not to be disturbed "till he please." 3:4-5

  6. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." 4:5

  7. "Come ... blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." 4:16

  8. "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him." 5:4

  9. "My hands dropped with myrrh.... I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself." 5:5-6

  10. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." 7:1-3

  11. "How pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! ... Thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine." 7:6-8

  12. "Let us get up early to the vineyards ... there will I give thee my loves." 7:12

  13. "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.... Stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please." 8:3-4

  14. "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts ... But my breasts [are] like towers." 8:8-10