While this site has as its primary focus this Rutgers study and its groundbreaking results, the many email and guestbook inquiries received regarding the origins and historical possibilities behind this rare male sexual physiology have prompted this webpage addition.

Table of Contents

The Watchers
     - Azazel's Unique Gift
     - What "Sexual Pleasure" did Azazel "Teach"?
     - "Divine Sex" vs. "Human Sex"
     - "Watcher" Males Multiorgasmic?
     - Canaanite "Fallen Angels" = Sumerian "Anunnaki"
     - Polgyny: An "Anunnake" Birthright and Continuing Legacy?
     - Persecution in Palestine/Israel and Exodus to Sumer

Sumerian Anunnaki
     - Sumerian "Hieros Gamos" - Multiorgasmic King-making Rite
     - 50 Orgasms Required of King for Goddess' (Women's) Acceptance
     - The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi as Script for "Hieros Gamos" (Sacred Marriage)
     - "Sacred Marriage" Multiorgasmic Rite Used by Women to Select Sexually-Equal Kings
     - Gilgamesh and Enkidu also Multiorgasmic?
     - Sumer's Multiorgasmic Legacy and Women's Equality Fade into History

In Egypt
     - The "Watchers" in Egypt
     - The Egyptian Sex God "Min"
     - King Menes and Min, One and the Same
     - Scorpion King Depicted with Erect Penis
     - Herodotus Equates Menes with Min
     - Menes Venerates "Hephaistos"
     - Hephaistos = Ptah
     - Ptah = Azazel: "The Divine Blacksmith"
     - Menes Deified for His "Eternally Firm" Sexual Capacity  

The Tribe of Benjamin of Rephaim Descent?
     - Benjamin as a "Son of (the) Min"
     - Benjamin Names His Own Son "Rapha" (of Rephaim)
     - Benjamin's Prolific Historical Figures

Transylvania and Slavic "Vampirism"

The "Dark Gift" of Unlimited Orgasmic Capacity
     - The Slavic Vampire as Archetype
     - The Historical Nosferatu
     - The Slavic Vampire: a Sexually "Insatiable" Race

Summary of Evidence

Final Thoughts and Portents for the Future

A "Physiologically Impossible" Male?

As documented in the published Rutgers study featured at this site, the male research Subject was born without a Male Refractory Period (MRP), thus possessing a unique sexual physiology - one previously thought only to be possessed by women and previously considered "physiologically impossible" for men. 

As with multiorgasmic women, he enjoys a sexual capacity that never requires a "down" time, that never desires "rest" following any number of natural, fully ejaculatory orgasms; an orgasmic insatiability which has previously only been recorded and referenced in the ancient myths of the Rephaim: the truth behind the vampire legends of the Nosferatu. 

How Rare Is This MRP-Free Capacity?

Is this Research Subject the only male without MRP? We seriously doubt it. He is, however, the first and still only adult male to have this supposedly "physiologically impossible" sexual capacity scientifically documented.

Whether this capacity is merely rare or completely unprecedented, the fact remains that prior to this study all previous documented instances, claims, or studies of male 'multiorgasmic' ability from ancient history to today has reference to the interrupted multiple orgasms made possible through the use of ejaculatory-control techniques. This study stands alone as the first to successfully document the legitimacy of this "impossible" ability and provides a foundational premise upon which to base future research into the actual psycho-physiologic triggers of the Male Refractory Period.

However, while this is the first documented scientific study of natural male multiorgasmic capacity, ancient history and the myths of gothic "horror" both provide intriguing accounts of an astounding hypothesis as to the true origins of this "impossible" male sexual capacity.

 

Though to today's science this limitless male sexual capacity is new, the history behind it may be as old as Human existence, itself - if not perhaps older.

Beginning with the ancient accounts of "Fallen Angels" (more accurately: "The Watchers") descending from heaven to sexually enjoy human females, to their "demigod" (half-god, half-human) progeny, called "The Rephaim" (who -- following their expulsion from the Middle Eastern lands -- became the source of the myriad sex Gods of antiquity, and ultimately resulting in their vilification as vampiric "Nosferati" in possession of the ultimate sexual "Dark Gift"), this unlimited male sexual capacity has been genetically passed along through the Ages to the current day.

"The Watchers were "a specific race of divine beings known in Hebrew as nun resh 'ayin, 'irin' (resh 'ayin, 'ir' in singular), meaning 'those who watch' or 'those who are awake', which is translated into Greek as Egrhgoroi egregoris or grigori, meaning 'watchers'. These Watchers feature in the main within the pages of pseudepigraphal and apocryphal works of Jewish origin, such as the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees."

- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 3

 

The Watchers ("Fallen Angels") and their Offspring, The "Rephaim"

"Book of Enoch" Chapter 6, Verses 1-8

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'...

And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.

And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael (Azazel), Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

 

This account is further verified and validated in the Bible:

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God(s) (bene ha-elohim or "Watchers") saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:1-2   (emphasis added)

"...the sons of God(s) (bene ha-elohim) came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."     
- Genesis 6:4  (emphasis added)

 

 

This ancient account, appearing not only in the Old Testament but also repeated in much greater detail in the Book of Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Jubilees, and referenced repeatedly throughout the Bible, reports an event of significant validity. As per these accounts, at some point anciently 200 "angels", led in part by Azazel (Azael) and called the "Sons of God"  (sons of Elohim) in the Old Testament, and intriguingly also referred to as "The Watchers" and also "The Nephilim" (The Fallen Ones), became so sexually aroused by human females that they could no longer constrain themselves, but descended from the Heavens to Earth (touching down on "Ardis", presumably Mount Hermon), forfeiting their "first estate" forever, and sexually enjoying human females abundantly, thus causing fornication to run rampant despite the strict religious laws forbidding same. Evidently these "fallen angels" were so sexually unique from human males as to be almost irresistible to the females of the area, thereby incurring the "wrath of God" upon them for having so completely "corrupted" such females and thereafter taking from among them "wives of all that they chose."

 

Their Gifts of Knowledge and Technology to Mankind

The Book of Enoch elaborates on the Watcher tradition from Genesis 6:1-4.

According to the Book of Enoch, the Watchers were angels in heaven who saw the women on Earth and lusted after them. At their leader Semjaza’s request, two hundred of them made a pact to descend from heaven, take the women as wives, and beget children.

Regardless of what their true motivations might have been, they did apparently "descend from heaven" and most certainly did lust after women and eventually at some point married many of them and had children by them. However, this was not all these "Watchers" did. According to the ancient texts from many different sources, the 200 "Watchers" also imparted knowledge and technology to mankind that had not previously existed among them, including:

•   ...they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. (1 Enoch 7:2)
•   Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures (blacksmithing, metallurgy, mineralogy, and cosmetology). (1 Enoch 8:1)  (emphasis added)
•   Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings (herbology and holistic medicine), 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments (toxicology, anti-venom, etc.), Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations (astronomy), Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds (meteorology), Araqiel the signs of the earth (geology), Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon (skills and sciences related to meteorology and astronomy). (1 Enoch 8:3)   (emphasis added)

 

Azazel's Unique Gift

A more complete account of the alleged activities by these "Watchers" can be found in the Books of Enoch, among other ancient texts. Here follows a summary of some of these activities:

Azazel

"To the women he (Azazel) taught the art of 'beautifying' the eyelids, and the use of 'all kinds of costly stones' and 'colouring tinctures', indicating that before this time the wearing of make-up and jewelry was unknown. Through this unforgivable act, the Daughters of Men were believed to have been 'led astray', and because of it they became 'corrupt', committing fornication not only with the Watchers themselves, but also, it must be assumed*, with men who were not their regular partners. Azazel also stood accused of teaching women how to enjoy sexual pleasure and indulge in promiscuity - a blasphemy seen as 'godlessness' in the eyes of the Hebrew storytellers."
"From the Ashes of Angels", Collins, p. 25, 1996 (emphasis added)

* This is indeed an assumption, only. There is nothing to suggest that once having experienced sex with these "Watchers," women suddenly became openly promiscuous with men other than the "Watchers." And had such women committed fornication with Hebrew men, such men would have been in equal violation of their own Law and could hardly have then been taken seriously in vilifying and condemning the "Watchers" for committing these same acts.

 

What "Sexual Pleasure" did Azazel "Teach"?

As stated previously, Azazel was accused of "...teaching women how to enjoy sexual pleasure." Apart from the ridiculousness of considering such a crime, the question must be asked:  What sexual pleasures did Azazel introduce to females that they had not known previously?

It would be ridiculous to assume that prior to the Watchers' arrival, women had been unable to figure out what an orgasm was or how to "enjoy" such. Additionally it would be equally ludicrous to think that the Watchers brought with them some new form of sexual practice not already enjoyed to its most decadent extreme by the many sexually hedonistic cultures that surrounded the ancient Hebrews and with whom they at that time coexisted.

Thus the question remains: What did Azazel -- and presumably his fellow "Watchers" -- teach women that they hadn't been able to learn with their ordinary male lovers for the many hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years of Human existence? Obviously, there was a level of "sexual pleasure" possible with these "Watchers" that women had never experienced prior to their arrival. And while the many influences from the surrounding hedonistic cultures had apparently not been successful, it was this new "sexual pleasure" brought by the Watchers that resulted in the wholesale seduction and "corruption" of Hebrew women, causing the rampant fornication that ensued thereafter -- and perhaps most noteworthy, was supposedly the major motivation behind God's reported decision to destroy all Mankind in the Great Flood.

"The biblical tale of the Deluge, the Great Flood, begins in Chapter 6 of Genesis with eight enigmatic verses. Their presumed purpose was to explain to future generations how it was - how it could have happened - that the very Creator of Humankind turned against it, vowing to wipe Man off the face of the Earth? The fifth verse is supposed to offer both explanation and justification: 'And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the Earth, and that every imagination of his heart's thoughts was evil.' Therefore (verse six) 'Yahweh repented that He had made Man upon the Earth, and it grieved Him at His heart.'

"But this explanation by the Bible, pointing the accusing finger at humanity, only increases the puzzle of the chapter's first four verses, whose subject is not at all humanity but the deities themselves, and whose focus is the intermarriage between "the sons of God" and "the daughters of the Adam."

"And if one wonders, what has all that got to do with the excuse for the Deluge as a punishment of Mankind, the answer can be given in one word: SEX... Not human sex, but Divine Sex."

- "Divine Encounters"  Chapter 4, Zecharia Sitchin (emphasis added)

http://www.geocities.com/elchasqui_2/ZSitchinbook8d.html

 

"Divine Sex" vs. "human sex"

What then exactly constituted "Divine Sex"? And what about such "Divine Sex" would have been so unique, so separated from all forms of "human sex" already in practice by the many sexually motivated cultures in existence? And what about the sex possible between these demigods and females and the superior sensual pleasures taught to women thereby was considered so terribly corrupting as to be considered the motivation behind God's decision to destroy all Humankind via the Great Flood?

Setting aside any supernatural elements in logically investigating this intriguing question, what we do know about the "Fallen Angels" is that they were all male. Thus, whatever possible unique sexual characteristic(s) they might have possessed that resulted in such superior pleasures would have both originated and resulted from the male side of the heterosexual "equation."

Thus the question becomes: Is there any inherent male sexual limitation universal to homo sapiens males on this planet that might prevent females from learning and enjoying their full potentials for sexual pleasure?

The obvious answer to this question is a resounding "yes!":

"The one thing I hate is that no matter how you go about it, intercourse ends almost always when he comes and becomes limp..."

"I feel it is a great pity that males and females were sexually-biologically built such that males are ready to quit just as females are getting started."

"If the partner is male, the woman is stuck with the limits of his sexuality."

- female respondents in "The Hite Report" (1976, p. 325)

This natural propensity in normal males to quickly rise to orgasm followed by a mandatory, physiologically dictated, "down time," thereafter is called the "Male Refractory Period." This is also what motivates men's stereotypical "wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am" sexual response cycle and, all too often, their emotional "love-'em-and-leave-'em" attitudes where romance is concerned. This is quite obviously not at all compatible with either the female's own sexual response cycle or her desires for romance and emotional intimacy.

Women have always possessed an orgasmic potential far superior to that of normal men, regardless of race, society, or culture. All women are, at least, physiologically capable of an almost infinite capacity for multiple orgasm; whereas ordinary men most certainly are not. As a result of this, women are forever kept from exploring, achieving, and enjoying their natural sexual potentials while mated to mono-orgasmic males.

 

"Watcher" Males... Multiorgasmic?

However, were Azazel and other Watcher males not sexually hampered by a Male Refractory Period and were thus as naturally multiorgasmic as women then, with such male sexual equals, females would indeed experience an enjoyment of sexual pleasure previously impossible and unknown to them.

Add to this the intimacies and emotional pleasures of sharing this higher degree of sensual fulfillment with a loving male partner of equal sexual capacity and it becomes possible to understand why such never-ending emotional and sensual communion would have been so much more appealing to women, who by nature are at least as emotionally motivated as they are sensually. However, as relates specifically to erotic pleasures, after a number of multiple orgasms, true multiorgasmics experience a ever-increasing, opiate-like euphoria or "high" resulting from the continual release of endorphins orgasm after orgasm.

Thus were the "Watchers" truly multiorgasmic, women would find in such unique males both lovers and mates with whom their own emotional and sensual needs and potentials would best be fulfilled.

A most provocative theory.  But, is there any evidence to support such?

The Name "Azazel" and the Multiorgasmic Implications of its Etymology

Further intriguing evidence of Azazel's known sexual nature is found in the origin of the particular name ascribed to this sensuous "Fallen Angel" by the ancient Hebrews:

"This word is itself derived from SHD 5810 ‘azaz' which is a prime root meaning to be stout. Literally or figuratively it means to harden, be impudent, prevail or strengthen the self or to be strong."     -  http://www.logon.org/english/s/p153.html

As with the sexually slanted etymology of the prime root term most notably given the Watcher offspring, Rephaim, ("vigor", meaning "lustihood, stamina, virility, hard, potent, masculine, male"), so also do we find that the term "Azazel" also contains specific apparent references to male "virility" and "hard"-ness.

To the hyper-"pious" sensibilities of the ancient Canaanites, who could argue that there could be nothing more "impudent" (immodest, shameless) than the "harden"-ed male sexual organ? And in the case of a "Fallen Angel" possessing true multiorgasmic capacity and for whom a continually erect phallus ("strengthen[ing] the self") while sexually aroused would notably be maintained regardless of the number of fully ejaculatory multiple orgasms experienced, this pronounced and highly unusual male sexual capacity would most certainly have strongly influenced the name by which this particular Watcher would forever be remembered.

Here then we find an intriguing possible explanation of how Azazel might have taught women to "enjoy sexual pleasure" to a degree significantly greater than that previously possible to heterosexual females.

Yet while such a theory most certainly explains the extremely libidinous accounts of the "Fallen Angels" with human females, and how it was that Azazel could stand accused of "teaching women to enjoy sexual pleasure" previously unknown to them, and why the ancient Hebrews vilified these "Watcher" males for having so "corrupted" their females, and why their version of "God" would have been so reportedly motivated to destroy all humankind in the Great Deluge as a result of such highly developed sensuality, what do the ancient texts, the archeaological and anthropological studies into such ancient Middle Eastern cultures reveal apart from religious interpretations as to who and what these "Watchers" were?

And... is there any true evidence to support such a provocative theory?

Canaanite "Fallen Angels" = Sumerian "Anunnaki"

As has already been proven by science, the story of Noah's Flood in Genesis find its origins in a far more ancient account of this same flood in the Sumerian tale of the "Epic of Gilgamesh." And as concluded by many scholars and archaeologists specializing in ancient Sumer, the "Fallen Angels" of Genesis also find direct parallel and were indeed synonymous with the earlier accounts of the Sumerian "Anunnaki," who like the "Fallen Angels" were also a group of superior beings who descended to Earth and openly provided Humankind with key knowledge necessary to modern Human civilization, including agriculture, writing, the basic sciences and mathematics.

However, whereas the ancient Sumerians called these "heavenly" beings "Anunnaki", meaning "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came", the Canaanites and their descendants the Israelites chose to instead vilify these same beings with the appellation, "Nefilim", which meant "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Fell." The implication apparent to all that, to the ancient Canaanites, these beings were not to be considered as benevolent beings from "Heaven," as they were so considered by the Sumerians, but instead as malevolent evil beings who had rebelled against God, been cast out of Heaven by Him, and thus had fallen to Earth, therefrom.

Further information on this subject can be found in the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, "Internationally acclaimed author and Biblical scholar," who continues to write books and articles on this topic. Chapter Four ("The Nephilim: Sex and Demigods") of his book "Divine Encounters," offers intriguing additional information on this subject:

"The biblical term Nefilim, the sons of the Elohim who were then upon the Earth, parallels the Sumerian Anunnaki ('Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came'); the Bible itself (Numbers 13:33) explains this by pointing out that the Nefilim were 'sons of Anak' (Hebrew rendering of Anunnaki). The time preceding the Deluge was thus a time when the young Anunnaki began to have sex with young human females; and being compatible, had children by them - offspring part mortal and part 'divine': demigods.

"That such demigods were present on Earth is amply attested in Near Eastern texts, be it in regard to individuals (such as the Sumerian Gilgamesh) or long dynasties (such as the reported dynasty of thirty demigods in Egypt that preceded the Pharaohs); both instances, however, pertain to post-Diluvial times. But in the biblical preamble to the Deluge tale we have an assertion that the "taking of wives" from among the human females by the 'sons of the Elohim' - sons of the DIN.GIR - had already begun well before the Deluge."

http://timedwards.topcities.com/tec/divine/de4a.htm (emphasis added)

Of additional evidence that the Sumerian "Anunnaki" were, in fact, the precursors of the "Nefilim" ("Sons of God," "Fallen Angels," "Watchers") of Genesis, Jubilees, the Books of Enoch, etc., is the fact that the very name "Sumer" means, in the original Sumerian language, "Land of the Watchers." Hence from ancient times on, and as the Sumerians identified themselves, Sumer was indeed the Land of the "Watchers," the Land of the "Fallen Angels":

"SHIN'AR or SUMER = Land of the Watchers"        Sumerian Dictionary

Polygyny:  An "Anunnake" Birthright and Continuing Legacy?

Equally understandable is the concept that, for males capable of such insatiable and unlimited sexuality, polygyny (that form of polygamy in which there is one male and multiple females) might indeed be the logical marital preference. Thus, it is reasonable to consider likely the idea that polygyny as a practice might well have been introduced to Human society by such multiorgasmic "fallen angels."

Currently, it is a fact that despite the dominance of monogamy as the societal norm in Western culture, the fact remains that even today over 85% of all world societies are polygynous.  And the great majority of all such societies have as their cultural example ancient Judaism and, more recently, Islam, both of whom have as their earliest "prophet", father, and leader the figure of Father Abraham, himself originally from "Ur of the Chaldees", which we identify today as the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk, from whence Abraham brought with him the practice of polygyny.

Thankfully with the growing acceptance of gay marriage, the legal issues re: the continued criminality of polygyny and the blatant discrimination now apparent in decriminalizing one marital option among consenting adults while continuing to criminalize another far more ancient and natural one (over 95% of all mammals are polygynous) is finally beginning to be noticed and legally addressed. After all, if it's okay that "Heather Has Two Mommies", why should it then be illegal if she have two mommies and a daddy?

Persecution in Palestine/Israel and Exodus to Sumer ("Land of the Watchers")
(ca 7,000 - 5,000 BCE)

Our search for more information regarding the descendents of the original 200 "Watcher" males is hampered by the fact that while the basic initial terrestrial history of the Watchers and their progeny exists in almost every Near and Middle Eastern historical record (e.g., the Old Testament, Talmud, the Book of Jubilees, the Books of Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls), yet so little references exist concerning their characteristics and the later history of their descendents, the Rephaim. However one event is found in almost every surviving historical document regarding the Rephaim that recounts an attempt made by the ancient Canaanites to slaughter them all.

The motivation given for such wholesale slaughter is reported in the Book of Enoch. Despite the fact that all accounts, including the Book of Enoch, clearly record that the "Watchers" had lawfully married their wives and with them had children, yet the Book of Enoch specifically calls the children of these marriages "bastards" and "children of fornication":

"And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men..."

"Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance (lust*), and the offspring of the Watchers..."  

-  * (Knibb, p. 90; cp. Charles, p. 76)

 Book of Enoch, Chapter 10, vs 9, 18

Yet despite the Bible's references to the destruction of the Rephaim, later Biblical references speak of their continued existence in Palestine (e.g., Numbers: 13:22; 13:28-33; Deut: 1:28; 2:1-; 9:2; Joshua: 11:21-22; 14:12; 14:15; 15:13-14; Judges: 1:20).

Thus the Watchers and their progeny, the Rephaim, were not completely destroyed during this first genocidal attempt, though many were killed. Instead the evidence strongly suggests that the majority of the surviving Rephaim escaped and migrated to other more tolerant and almost infinitely more sensual societies in the Fertile Crescent area, particularly the land of Sumer (also rendered "Shu' Mer" and "Shin' Ar"), whose very name means "Land of the Watchers" (see SHIN' AR or SUMER in the "Sumerian Dictionary").

 

Sumerian Anunnaki and their Descendants Multiorgasmic

Sumer ("Land of the 'Watchers'"), the first true empire and civilization in recorded history (ca 5,000 - 2,000 BCE), was -- according to its own mythology -- founded by and flourished under the reign of the "Anunnaki" (Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came"), who were the Sumerian equivalent of the "Nefilim" (Those Who from Heaven to Earth Fell"), also known as the "Watchers," whose progeny were the Rephaim.

Perhaps more than any culture before or since, Sumer glorified and celebrated eroticism and sexual activity. Public sexual expression, incest and pedophilia, and sacred prostitution: all have their origins in Sumerian culture. Yet also during the Sumerian period did women enjoy the most economic, social, and sexual freedoms than they have ever since. With the Anunnaki, women were truly considered equal in every way. This was due to the fact that both the Anunnaki males and their descendants as well as the Human females with whom they shared and enjoyed all, were equal sexually and emotionally. All were multiorgasmic.

Central to this webpage is the theory that the "Watchers" were multiorgasmic. Thus, were the Anunnaki equivalent with the "Watchers" (Nefilim) of Canaanite mythology, they too would also have been multiorgasmic. And sure enough, we soon discovered irrefutable proof of this in perhaps the single most important public ritual practiced annually by the Sumerians for over 2,000 years and was later practiced in many derivative forms by Pagans worldwide.

Hieros Gamos ("Sacred Marriage"):  The Multiorgasmic Sumerian King-making Sex Ritual

As stated above, the king's capacity for leadership was tested via the Hieros Gamos (Sacred Marriage) ceremony wherein he sexually re-enacted with the Priestess the role of Dumuzi, the demi-god ruler of Sumer. Without this ceremony, "he was not considered fit to rule."

Thus, his kingship depended upon his ability to consummate "his marriage with the goddess" not once or twice... but "fifty times." That's right: 50 orgasms, one after the other, non-stop.

By this requirement, all Sumerian Kings had to be... multiorgasmic.

"...the high priestess, acting in place of The Goddess (Inanna), had sex with the new king to show the Goddess's people that the Goddess herself accepted him as their caretaker and ruler of the country. Not only did these two have sex fifty times, but the entire congregation had front row seats to these fifty climaxes...."

-  http://people.stu.ca/~gwvpt/theme4.htm (emphasis added)

And while the above-cited quote has it appear that 50 orgasms were required of each, the ancient texts themselves limit this 50-orgasm requirement to the man, alone. Only the King-apparent, in the role of the God Dumuzi, was required to climax 50 times.

Inanna

The ritual text itself, used in the actual Sumerian "Sacred Marriage" rite, makes clear that it is the King-apparent, assuming the role of the mortal "Dumuzi," who experiences these fifty orgasms:

Inanna spoke:
"My beloved, the delight of my eyes, met me.
We rejoiced together.
He took his pleasure of me.
He brought me into his house.
He laid me down on the fragrant honey-bed.
My sweet love, lying by my heart, Tongue-playing,
one by one,
My fair Dumuzi did so fifty times.
Now, my sweet love (i.e., Dumuzi) is sated."

(excerpt from "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi," ca 3000 BCE) (emphasis added)

 

This multiorgasmic interpretation is further validated in the book "Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth" (1983, Wolkstein & Kramer) where this passage is indeed understood as Dumuzi "...making love to her 'fifty times'" (p. 153).

Only after fifty such orgasms is Dumuzi, her male lover (twice described by Inanna as "my sweet love" in the above-excerpted passage), sexually "sated."

Should any doubt still remain as to the correct interpretation of this "fifty times" passage, another version of this same event was recorded anciently and can be found online at Oxford University's "Electronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature":

"When my sweet precious (Inanna), my heart, had lain down too,
Each of them in turn kissing with the tongue, each in turn,
Then my brother (Dumuzi) of the beautiful eyes did it fifty times to her,
Exhaustedly waiting for her, as she trembled underneath him, dumbly silent for him.
My dear precious passed the time with my brother laying his hands on her hips."

(excerpt from "A Balbale of Inana and Dumuzid," t.4.08.04, 12-18)

And then we have the personal account of Enmerkar, King of Uruk, relating his personal experience in the "Sacred Marriage" Rite of Kingship with an "entu" or "hierodule" (the female priestess representing Inanna in "Sacred Marriage" rite) (ca 2600 BCE). Responding to a boast by the governor of a neighboring city claiming to be the true "beloved" of Inanna, and thus attempting to make himself a potential rival to Uruk's throne, Enmerkar replies:

"He may lie with her in sweet slumber on the adorned bed, but I lie on Inana's splendid bed strewn with pure plants. Its back is an ug lion, its front is a pirig lion. The ug lion chases the pirig lion, the pirig lion chases the ug lion. As the ug lion chases the pirig lion and the pirig lion chases the ug lion, the day does not dawn, the night does not pass. I accompany Inana for a journey of (15) double-hours*..." (Lines 77-88)

- "Enmerkar and Ensuhkesdanna: A Sumerian Narrative Poem", Berlin, p. 45 (emphasis added)

* In personal commnication, the author, Dr. Adele Berlin, explained that the Sumerian "double-hour" refers to the distance that could be traveled in two hours. To our reply email asking her opinion of the theory that this might refer to a non-stop sexual "journey" of 30 hours, Dr. Berlin replied "You have understood the passage well. The idea is of a never-ending night of lovemaking with the goddess, which proves who is the superior king."  Thus, apparently Enmerkar chose to use this common term for distance to more literally and figuratively illustrate the sexual "journey" taken by both he and Inanna [i.e., her priestess], with whom he orgasmically "accompany"-ied for 30 hours.

In "accompany"-ing Inanna in bed on a 30-hour ("15 double-hours") sexual "journey" during the "Sacred Marriage" king-making rite rather than to instead "lie with her in sweet slumber", Enmerkar indisputably lays hold to the superior sexual claim to Inanna's favor, and thus Uruk's throne. Enmerkar further illustrates the eternal nature of their lovemaking by using as metaphor the two lion decorations inlaid into the Sacred Marriage bed, itself, likewise eternally "chasing" each other about the bed's base.

Unlike his lesser rival, Enmerkar had proved himself worthy of kingship in proving himself capable of fully "accompany"-ing the sexually insatiable Inanna:

"Inanna's powers are prodigious. She is capable of making love through the day and night... The marriage of the goddess Inanna to the king was of essential importance to the people of Sumer. It was by this religious ritual that Inanna, Queen of Heaven, would take the earth-king into the "sweetness of her holy loins," and by her cosmic powers ensure the king's powers of leadership and fertiliity.

Yet Inanna, the Goddess of Love, does not offer her favors freely. Not only must she be properly approached with sweet words and gifts, but she must be properly and amply loved. A lion of a man is demanded: a king who is equal to Inanna..."

- "Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth", 1983, Wolkstein & Kramer; p. 155 (emphasis added)

Once the King met with Inanna's (the Priestess') sexual approval by proving his multiorgasmic capacity, thus evidencing his possession of this unique Rephaim (Anunnaki) trait, then were the following words spoken signifying her acceptance of him as a "fit" and "worthy" King:

"You, the chosen shepherd of the holy shrine,
You, the king, the faithful provider of Uruk,
You, the light of An's great shrine,
In all ways you are fit:
To hold your head high on the lofty dais,
To sit on the lapis lazuli throne,
To cover your head with the holy crown...
To bind yourself with the garments of kingship,...
In all ways you are fit.
May your heart enjoy long days...
You are the favorite of Ningal. Inanna holds you dear."

"The Sacred Marriage likely originated in the Sumerian city of Uruk (which was dedicated to the Goddess Inanna) earlier than 3000 B.C. The Sacred Marriage was between the Goddess Inanna and either the high priest (representing the god), or the king (representing the God Dumuzi), and was performed in the temples of various fertility goddesses for nearly two thousand years. The annual symbolic reenactment of this mythical union was a public celebration essential to the well-being of the community, and since it was the occasion of a joyous celebration, it may have involved sexual activity on the part of the worshipers in and around the temple grounds (Lerner 240). The fact that the king of Sumer ritually married a representative of the goddess Inanna once every year helped sustain the power of the priestesses at least for a time (Stephenson 56). Rites similar to the Sacred Marriage also flourished in classical Greece and pre-Christian Rome (Lerner 240)."

-  Women in Mesopotamia (emphasis added)

This yearly rite, which begins with sacrifices and culminates in this sacred marriage or "hieros gamos", is delicately and sketchily described by Geoffrey Parrinder {"World Religions from Ancient History to the Present," (Facts on File Publications, New York, 1983), pp. 125-128} who observes that the king acted as the successor to Dumuzi, lover and husband of Inanna. In re-enacting the love-feast of these two deities that assured fertility: "The part of the goddess was given to a selected priestess." Parrinder notes that entry to the higher classes of priesthood was by patronage, so that society's physically and intellectually favored were selected. A highly readable account of the sacred marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi, giving full and glowing details of their lovemaking and subsequent exchange of gifts has recently been published. This work describes the results of the sacred union in terms of establishing the authority and throne of the king, granting him a favorable and glorious reign and an enduring crown, fertile fields, sheep, vegetation, grain, birds, and produce in abundance {Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel N. Kramer, "Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer"  (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1983), pp. 146-147}.

-  http://www.thoughtsandplaces.org/venusworks.html