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Darrera modificació: 2012-09-05
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Buendía, Pedro, "Delicado sifād, preciado semen", Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 18 (2009), 443-458.
- Resum
- Medieval Arabic literature offers numerous examples of the survival of the Greco-Roman topos on the weakness caused by sexual relations and the expulsion of semen. This idea may have been transmitted to Arab culture through one of two ways: the direct influence of scientific translations from Greek to Arabic starting in the 9th century, or the extended belief in a relationship between semen, bones and marrow, the presence of which seems probable in Arab folklore through Islamic folk medicine or the “Medicine of the Prophet”. However, the topos of weakness due to the expulsion of semen did not contribute to the creation of a negative image of sexual relations in Islamic sexual morality – legally guaranteed by the sunnah – but, more likely, confirmed the Greek idea of its moderate practice as a guarantee to a long life.
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- Història de la medicina
Sexualitat
- Notes
- El text estarà consultable a la xarxa en desembre de 2012.
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