Kasumi_Lee
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Maybe it's just me, but there seem to have been an awful lot of threads created about plot bunnies in the past few weeks, and it got me thinking about all the various myths and legends waiting to be adapted into erotic stories. The bible alone is full of sex stories (although you might disagree about whether biblical stories count as "mythology").
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden is the most obvious example. Incest/Taboo lovers can turn to the story of Lot drunkenly impregnating his two daughters (whom the text doesn't even bother to name). And who can forget about King David and his tryst with Bathsheba, the loving wife of Uriah the Hittite?
Then there's the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the gods create a wild man called Enkidu who has such a strong connection to nature that he has more in common with a wild animal than a Human being, so the gods send a divine harlot (that's the translation) to teach him the ways of civilization. She gets Enkidu's attention by disrobing in front of him and spends the next seven days and seven nights "civilizing" him, and once he's been thoroughly civilized, he gains the arts of civilization but loses his connection to nature.
Finally, there's all the Greco-Roman myths about the gods (usually Zeus) imposing themselves on beautiful mortal women and fathering semi-divine heroes. The Iliad is all about rugged warrior men fighting over beautiful women and generally treating them as spoils of war (not fun for the ladies, obviously, but there's plenty of material out of which to spin an erotic tale). The Odyssey consists mostly of Odysseus tied up in the arms of semi-divine beings like Circe and Calypso before he finally gets home to Penelope, who unlike him actually stayed faithful for all those years.
My favorite legend has to be that of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche is the youngest daughter of the rulers of an unnamed city state who is so beautiful that the inhabitants start worshipping her as a living goddess and giving her offerings, thinking she's the incarnation of the goddess of love, Venus, or possibly even the product of an affair between Venus and a lucky mortal man. Venus is furious that people are neglecting her worship in favor of this mortal hussy, and she's even angrier about the rumors that Psyche is her daughter, so she sends her son Cupid (of uncertain paternity) to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature possible. Cupid, however, gets clumsy with his arrows and ends up pricking himself, causing him to fall in love with Psyche.
Meanwhile, an ill omen suggests that Psyche will bring calamity to the city if she stays, so she's arrayed in funeral attire and shoved off a cliff, but the west wind Zephyrus carries her away to a wonderful palace with beautiful gardens where she's treated like a queen. The best part is that, in complete darkness, a stranger visits her in her bed and makes love to her every night (we know it's Cupid, but she doesn't). She looks forward to his nightly visits, and eventually becomes pregnant.
All of that's just the first act of the legend, but this post is long enough already. So what do you guys think? Which of these legendary plot bunnies would you turn into a story if you could? Have any of you done so already? Are there any other sexy myths or legends I didn't mention that you think would make great erotica adaptations?
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden is the most obvious example. Incest/Taboo lovers can turn to the story of Lot drunkenly impregnating his two daughters (whom the text doesn't even bother to name). And who can forget about King David and his tryst with Bathsheba, the loving wife of Uriah the Hittite?
Then there's the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the gods create a wild man called Enkidu who has such a strong connection to nature that he has more in common with a wild animal than a Human being, so the gods send a divine harlot (that's the translation) to teach him the ways of civilization. She gets Enkidu's attention by disrobing in front of him and spends the next seven days and seven nights "civilizing" him, and once he's been thoroughly civilized, he gains the arts of civilization but loses his connection to nature.
Finally, there's all the Greco-Roman myths about the gods (usually Zeus) imposing themselves on beautiful mortal women and fathering semi-divine heroes. The Iliad is all about rugged warrior men fighting over beautiful women and generally treating them as spoils of war (not fun for the ladies, obviously, but there's plenty of material out of which to spin an erotic tale). The Odyssey consists mostly of Odysseus tied up in the arms of semi-divine beings like Circe and Calypso before he finally gets home to Penelope, who unlike him actually stayed faithful for all those years.
My favorite legend has to be that of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche is the youngest daughter of the rulers of an unnamed city state who is so beautiful that the inhabitants start worshipping her as a living goddess and giving her offerings, thinking she's the incarnation of the goddess of love, Venus, or possibly even the product of an affair between Venus and a lucky mortal man. Venus is furious that people are neglecting her worship in favor of this mortal hussy, and she's even angrier about the rumors that Psyche is her daughter, so she sends her son Cupid (of uncertain paternity) to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature possible. Cupid, however, gets clumsy with his arrows and ends up pricking himself, causing him to fall in love with Psyche.
Meanwhile, an ill omen suggests that Psyche will bring calamity to the city if she stays, so she's arrayed in funeral attire and shoved off a cliff, but the west wind Zephyrus carries her away to a wonderful palace with beautiful gardens where she's treated like a queen. The best part is that, in complete darkness, a stranger visits her in her bed and makes love to her every night (we know it's Cupid, but she doesn't). She looks forward to his nightly visits, and eventually becomes pregnant.
All of that's just the first act of the legend, but this post is long enough already. So what do you guys think? Which of these legendary plot bunnies would you turn into a story if you could? Have any of you done so already? Are there any other sexy myths or legends I didn't mention that you think would make great erotica adaptations?
