Sex and the Jews:
Letter to a Jewish Correspondent
Dr Lasha Darkmoon
August 29, 2010
A few months ago, I received an angry email from a young woman called
Victoria. Having ticked me off severely for various things I’d said in an
article — and after a further exchange of emotional letters — Victoria,
who was half Jewish, told me she would no longer be writing to me. So I
wrote her a valedictory note in which I took my leave of her with the
friendly words, “Farewell, my dear Jewess!” (RjH:
There is NOTHING called a half-Jew!!! One is either Jew or gentile.
Look up the
Priophef Ezra on that mather)
Silence ensued for several weeks. And then, to my surprise, I received
another confrontational letter from Victoria informing me that she was
writing to me again (a) “to correct certain misconceptions you have”, and
(b) to tell me that writing to me was “pointless.”
I found this quite amusing. It’s not often I get letters listing all my
shortcomings and telling me how pointless it is writing to me. It makes a
change. Victoria had taken offense at the term 'Jewess'. “Referring
to me as a ‘Jewess’ was very offensive and condescending,” she scolded,
“because I am only part Jewish.…But I guess in your racist mind, the fact
that I am even part Jewish is enough of a reason for you to deny my
humanity completely. Continuing any further correspondence with you is
pointless.”
This is the letter I wrote Victoria in response to her final
communication. I don’t usually write such long letters to my
correspondents, complete with a scholarly apparatus of facts, figures,
citations, embedded links and picture illustrations. On this
occasion, I decided to make an exception.
* * *
Dear Victoria,
Your condemnation of the word "Jewess" as anti-Semitic would be accepted,
I think, as fair comment nowadays. I meant no offense, but in any case
please accept my apologies.
You may not be aware of this, Victoria, but it’s a sad fact that because
of severe economic hardships endured by Jews in past centuries, many
Jewish girls were forced into a life of prostitution. In all the great
European cities, a certain type of prostitute was always to be found:
exotic and semi-Asiatic in appearance. She was Jewish, and she was very
much in demand. The word “Jewess” therefore entered the language as a
loose synonym for “Jewish prostitute”.
When Baudelaire writes a poem about a Parisian prostitute with whom he had
just spent the night, he refers to her simply as a “Jewess”. That was
enough to identify her as a prostitute. “Une nuit que j'étais près d'une
affreuse Juive…” (“One night as I lay next to a
frightful Jewess…”).
When Keats refers to Jewish prostitutes in an unpublished poetic fragment
quoted in a private letter (1819), he doesn’t call them “prostitutes”. He
just calls them “Jewesses”. Why? Because so many Jewesses were
prostitutes that the two terms had virtually become interchangeable. “Nor
in obscurèd purlieus would he seek / For curlèd Jewesses, with ankles
neat, / Who, as they walk abroad, make tinkling with their feet." (See
here.)
Keats is here referring to the typical Jewess with her "curly"
ringlets. The tinkling ankle bells he mentions were often worn in past
eras by prostitutes to signal their approach. Ever since Ancient India,
such bells have been
prostitute accessories.
* * *
You say you are "half Jewish", Victoria, and that your family originally
came from the Ukraine. Did you know that Odessa, the capital of Ukraine,
was once a magnet for prostitute lovers from all over Europe? The city was
famous for its sumptuous brothels, all supervised by Jewish madams who had
formerly been prostitutes themselves. As for the girls working in those
brothels, they were predominantly Jewish. Valued for their seductive
charms, these joygirls were referred to simply as "Jewesses."
Here is a pertinent quote:
By the 1860s a French visitor to Odessa wrote that Jews there were
responsible for a white slavery market in Russian women to Turkey. This is
feasible, especially since we know that Jewish brothel-keepers were
already in place at the other end in Constantinople. The 1889 census shows
that Jewish women ran 30 of 36 licensed brothels in Kherson province,
where Odessa was located. In 1908 the American consul there claimed that
the whole business of prostitution is almost exclusively in the hands of
Jews. Jewesses were prominent in the practice of prostitution. Thus, of
5127 licensed prostitutes in 1889, 1122 or 22 per cent were Jewish.
(See
here;
Note: 22% is significantly high, given that
Jews constituted only 4% of the
Ukrainian population..
A Rabbi Rosenak of the German Union of Rabbis writes in 1902 that up to
50% of the prostitutes in his area were Jewish. He deplores the fact and
considers it “inconceivable” that so many Jewish women should go astray.
Jewish prostitution flourished throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Jewish procuresses ran the brothels, luring both Christian and Jewish
girls into a life of prostitution. One Jewish madam was known as "Lucky
Sarah", so named because she was lucky enough to have founded the
lucrative Hungarian export trade in girls. Hungarian girls were considered
sexy. They had those dark, long-lashed eyes and exotic high cheek bones
that so many men find attractive. In short, the Jewish look
one finds enshrined in Hollywood’s first femme fatale, also known
as “the Vamp”:
Theda Bara
(born Theodosia Goodman, 1885–1955), Jewish silent screen actress famous
for her femme fatale roles. Note the corkscrew curls mentioned
earlier by Keats ("curled Jewesses"). The classic Hollywood femme
fatale,
Wikipedia tells us, was "often
foreign ... of an indeterminate Eastern European or Asian ancestry."
Equally well-known to the Jewish Underworld of the time was Sarah
Grossman, another Jewish procuress nicknamed "The Turk" because of the
number of girls she had tricked into a life of prostitution in
Constantinople. Two major sex emporiums were the industrial towns of
Czernowitz and Lemberg. Here countless girls were enticed into a life of
sex slavery. In 1892 a famous mass trial of twenty-seven procurers was
held in Lemberg. All the defendants were Jewish. The trial received so
much attention,
we are told,
that it marked “a high water point for the anti-Semites.”
“A
major device of the procurers was a Jewish ceremony referred to as the
stillah chuppah. This included a religious wedding ceremony which had
no civil validity. The soon-to-be abducted female would be misled into
believing that she was married with the rights of a wife, only to discover
later that her legal rights were nil. Innumerable Jewesses found
themselves tossed into brothels by this device.”
(See
here).
You see what is happening here, Victoria? Vast numbers of innocent Jewish
girls were tricked into a life of prostitution by their fellow Jews. It
was their own race who tricked them and sold them down the river. It
reminds me of the Jewish rabbis who tricked
Norman Finkelstein’s mother
out of her fair share of Holocaust reparations.
These are the facts, Victoria. They are the truth. Resist the truth if you
want, but truth will prevail in the end. Rather than dismiss me as an
“anti-Semite” for drawing the obvious conclusions from these well-known
historical data, you should come to terms with the fact that most ordinary
Jews are the dupes and victims of organized Jewry. It's not these ordinary
Jews I criticize or condemn, it’s their rabbinical and ideological
controllers: the Puppet Masters, or the
"Masters
of Discourse,"
to use Israel Shamir’s apt phrase.
It’s not the sheep, it’s the Bad Shepherds, who are the problem.
* * *
No
class of men appears to be quite as sex-obsessed as
the Orthodox Jews and the rabbinate.
If you compare the religious texts of the various world religions, you
will find that all of them — with the single exception of Judaism —
maintain a high moral tone throughout. They don’t keep harping on about
breasts and penises, prostitutes and semen.
Judaism does.
Consider this inflammatory passage from the Hebrew English Bible, enough
to bring a blush to any maidenly cheek:
There she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were like those of
donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the
lewdness of your youth when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your
young breasts fondled.
(Ezekiel
23: 20-21).
The number of Victorian damsels who must have swooned away over that
passage is probably beyond computation.
Turn to the Babylonian Talmud and you will find yourself suddenly
transported into a hothouse world of indelicate anecdotes dealing
specifically with prostitutes and their rabbinical (or yeshiva student)
clients. There are so many of these stories in the Talmud that a special
name had to be invented for them:
aggadah.
Though these instructive anecdotes touch on all conceivable topics,
usually with a rabbi as the central figure, sex often looms large. It can
certainly be argued that Judaism is more obsessed with sex than any other
world religion. (Scroll down to “Contents”, here.)
One such story starts like this: “They said of Rabbi Elazar ben Dordia
that he did not leave one prostitute in the world that he did not come
to. One time he heard that there was a certain prostitute in a town by the
sea who took a purse of dinars for her price. He took a purse of dinars
and went and crossed seven rivers to reach her…” (Tractate Avodah Zara
17a). Another story begins: “There was once a man who heard that there was
a prostitute in a town by the sea who took four hundred gold coins as her
price. He sent to her four hundred gold coins and set a time to come to
her. When his time came, he went. She said ‘Let him come in’. When he
entered, she sat naked on the top bed…etc. etc. ” (Tractate Menachot,
44a)
The Talmud is full of such stories about rabbis and their students paying
visits to prostitutes. Since the word “pornography” literally means
“writing about prostitutes,” the Talmud is perhaps the only
religious classic that could be described — in a literal sense — as
pornographic.
We read in the Talmud of Rahab the harlot,
for example, first mentioned in the book of Joshua. One of the most
bewitching femmes fatales of antiquity, on a par with Helen of
Troy and the fabulous Corinthian courtesan Lais mentioned by Demosthenes,
the beautiful Rahab first began to sell her body at the age of ten.
"There was no prince or ruler who had not slept with Rahab the
prostitute," the Talmud informs us breathlessly. (Tractate Zavachim
116b).
The rabbis, being the religious rulers of the day, were among the first to
enjoy this nubile nymphette’s favors. Pedophilia? Yes, the
Talmud is full of it.
We are told of this Jewish Lolita: "They [the rabbis] allow her an honored
place in Jewish tradition....Her past as a harlot is not held against her,
and is almost entirely forgotten once she converts to Judaism." (See
here).
Nothing changes. Plus ça change. Pedophilia is okay, it seems, if
you happen to be a Jewish rabbi or Roman Polanski — but not if you’re a
Catholic priest.
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Pedophilia is not the only sexual perversion to which the Talmud appears to
be tolerant. There is also voyeurism. An interesting anecdote relates how
Kahane, a yeshiva student, hides under his rabbi’s bed and eavesdrops on him
making love to his wife. He is discovered there and severely reprimanded by
his teacher who orders him to leave the room at once. The student refuses.
“No, I won’t!” he says. “For this is Torah, and I must learn!”
The rabbi is forced to take this into consideration. Spying on people having
sex is arguably okay if your motive for doing so is a passion for the Higher
Knowledge. (See The
Passionate Talmud,
Introduction,
p.
1).
Another section of the Talmud deals with bestiality. Widows are advised not
to keep dogs. Why? “Because”, one is
told,
“there’s some suspicion about what a woman who’s already tasted the
pleasures of the flesh might do with her pet.”
I
am not exaggerating when I say that the Talmud’s obsession with sex is
unique among world religions. Amazingly, it has to be the only religious
text in the world to discuss and compare the penis size of its most
venerated sages. (See The
Passionate Talmud,
Introduction,
p. 1).
Ex-President George W Bush on his way to Talmud class
* * *
Fast forward to the 21st century and we find that the contemporary rabbinate
can hardly be cited as models of sexual restraint.
Turn from the Talmud to Ilana Hammerman’s
In Foreign Parts: Trafficking in
Women in Israel
and you will read harrowing accounts of Israel's contemporary sex-service
industry. Innocent young girls, many of them underage, are kidnapped in
Russia and Eastern Europe and forced into a life of prostitution in Tel
Aviv. Locked up without food, subject to threats and violence by their
Jewish pimps, these wretched girls are sometimes expected to sleep with up
to sixty customers a day. Their most assiduous clients, sporting black hats
and bushy beards, are “religious” Orthodox Jews taking a sabbatical from
their wives.
Here is the kind of eye-popping revelation we come across in Hammerman’s
shocking book:
I
had a very famous rabbi who would come and order a girl to have sex with him
in the doggie position, and would ask her to bark," a former brothel owner
testified at a [Knesset] parliamentary committee. One of the working women,
presented as a devout Christian, expresses an aversion to her religious
clients: "They had a big black hat and under it [another] little black hat
and they were real perverts.
(See
here).
According to a CNN report in 1998, Israel now has the highest per capita
consumption of prostitute services in the world. One million visits are paid
to prostitutes each month, making brothel hopping one of the nation’s
most popular pastimes. Thousands of women are
abducted
annually — mostly from Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Uzbekistan and China —
and sold into sex slavery in Israel. "The situation," Jewish author David
Weinberg wrote in a 1998 article about prostitution in Israel, entitled
Not So Holy Land, "is enough to make you cry in despair — or
vomit from shame."
* *
*
Jews certainly have
sex on the brain.
“I’m such a sex machine,” Radio talk show host Howard Stern boasts.
“I could take a piece of wood and turn it into something erotic.”
Woody Allen,
loyal supporter
of pedophile Roman Polanski, was accused by his estranged wife Mia Farrow of
sexually abusing
their 7-year-old daughter Dylan. Woody is best known today for his brilliant
witticism: “Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.”
Hope Weissman, a Jewish professor at Wesleyan university in Connecticut, was
the first to give a course on pornography in which her students were
expected to “study” the most obscene pornographic magazines and witness a
striptease performance by (Jewish) porn star Annie Sprinkle which may have
included her famous routine of letting people
peer
up her vagina
with a flashlight.
In
2001, Jewish professor Peter Singer put in a good word for bestiality at
Princeton university, suggesting in an essay called
Heavy
Petting
that one might like to get it on with a dog. Again in 2001, a Jewish
community in England made big news when
three
strippers
were invited to perform sexually explicit acts in a synagogue, possibly with
the resident rabbi in full attendance.
In
1998, Israeli commentator Jonathan Rosenblum, noting that a CNN documentary
had revealed that Israel now had the highest rate of prostitution in the
world, had this to say: "Once again anti-Semites portray us as sexual
libertines and perverts to undermine our moral authority. Today we
cheerfully admit the charges.” (See
here).
Of
one thing we can be reasonably certain: any society that attracts large
numbers of Jews can expect within a few years to enter a spiral of
decadence. Moral anarchy sets in. Sexual promiscuity throws open its
Pandora’s box of evils. We saw it in Weimar Germany. We see it gathering
pace in America today. We see it above all in Israel, a society of fanatical
settlers and rabid right-wing rabbis: a country surely doomed to implode
from within, sooner or later, under the pressure of its own moral and
military excesses.
I
cannot help feeling that a great storm is brewing and that only a military
coup or revolution can now save America. Save it from what? From the
spiritual cancer that is consuming it from within, and from the foreign wars
into which it is being lured — Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon perhaps Iran — on
behalf of another nation and its indefatigable agents in America.
Unless a miracle soon occurs and some charismatic leader comes to our
rescue, an unimaginably bleak future surely awaits us: a future in which the
only consolations left to us will be mindless entertainment, drugs, alcohol,
sexual intoxication — and suicide.
Sincere best wishes, Victoria, and good luck to you in the days of terror
and tribulation that lie ahead.
Lasha Darkmoon
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