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The apple may appear to be a strange place to start with an A-Z of erotica for the month of April, but I chose it because I’m looking for something a little different from the norm, and also because it has become a symbol of Eros thanks to the assumptions about Eve’s seduction technique used on Adam.
The traditional Christian story goes, the Serpent seduced Eve into taking the forbidden fruit, and then after partaking, Eve offered it to Adam, and he took if from her. This led to expulsion from the garden of Eden and sin entering the world, after all God had refused them permission to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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The Apple bears the burden of representation for whatever fruit this was, but it’s only the beginning of the legend that has grown out of the biblical record. Because of the Church’s suspicion of female sexuality - and women in general - it has always been assumed Eve enticed the pious Adam with her worldly ways, moving away from her good role as wife, toward the shadow figure, of the whore. The serpent convinced her to stray, she consumed the fruit, and turned into something poor Adam could never resist.
Apples have the added advantage of being red (unless they’re green, but when you see a sexy pair or red lips eating an apple it’s usually a red one) as well as shaped like the round behind of a female. The first bite is reminiscent of the ultimate straying from goodness. They shine, one of the few fruits that do, and they taste sweet and delicious. They have the added advantage of being good for you, but this is a small factor that usually gives way to the fruits darker mythologies.
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Apples are what the student gives the teacher when they fall into that Freudian attraction we have for authority figures and they were what the ancient Greeks threw to women they intended to take as their lovers.
In medieval England, the autumn celebration of the fermented apple included orgies supposedly to invite a bountiful harvest.
When we fall for someone, they become the apple of our eye.
That simple dark red fruit carries the weight of much of our erotic desire in history and story.
For me, it was the perfect place to start an A-Z of erotica.
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