From The Epic of Gilgamesh

The reading was different than what we usually read. I found it pretty funny, yet a little sexist. Sexist because how they use Shamhat (a woman) to capture Enkidu's attention and keep him from his ways. Sadly Shamhat cannot do much but just go along with what Enkidu wants to do for the next couple of days. Towards the end of the reading it says "He put on some clothing and became like a warrior" he needed to have intercourse with the harlot in order to go to the Holy Temple and be taught all of these "warrior" like things. Basically, the woman had to use her body to make him change. It made me think of teenage boys' when they are going through puberty and they are becoming curious of a teenage girls' body. How at that age they are seen as "cool" if they have any sexual activity with girls and in their mind they are now "men" and can't act like little boys any longer. It is crazy to believe what if this is really how they thought back then as well.