5 Bible Verses That Are Way More Graphic Than "Fun Home" (the alison bechdel graphic novel)

[niyad]

5 Bible Verses That Are Way More Graphic Than "Fun Home"

Several Duke University students announced this week that they would be skipping one title on the school’s recommended summer reading list: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the acclaimed illustrated memoir by Alison Bechdel that became a Broadway musical and swept the Tony Awards this summer. The students cited religious concerns, saying that the Bible prohibits the viewing of pornographic material (Bechdel’s graphic novel depicts masturbation and sex between women).





That got us thinking: Aren’t there some pretty graphic sex scenes in the Holy Book? The answer is yes. Below, five Bible verses that are arguably way more graphic than "Fun Home".


Genesis 19:33-36

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.


2 Samuel 13:11-14

Now when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.” But she answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! And I, where could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.” However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her.

1 Samuel 18:25-27

Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.’” Saul’s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines. When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed, David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

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[exboyfil]

1. Ezekiel 23:20

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.


Also where the word thigh is used can mean something else like as follows:

Genesis 24
So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

[niyad]

2. I loved pointing out all the porn in the bible to those whose widdle heads (both, or either)

will explode.

[Mrdie]

3. What's ridiculous is

They're using the fact that there's a few depictions of nudity and sexual acts in the book to argue that it's porn, even though the depictions very obviously aren't meant to arouse the reader. And it's almost certainly a dishonest criticism anyway, because if the book had been edited to remove the drawings in question then they would find some other reason to condemn it that isn't directly "it's about a gay person growing up."

[niyad]

4. you are undoubtedly correct.