SHORT STORIES

ABOUT THE VIRGINS PROTECTED BY GODDESS ATHENA

Under the iron watch of the governess the young maidens are isolated in the gynoeceum, the women quarters. They are in there spinning the wool or weaving in the looms for ever and ever. And they do not let ever be seen by the lascivious young men, not even by the sun. This is because the divine Apollo, while flying by the sky on his solar chariot, he looks down to enjoy the sight of the virginal thighs of the maidens and their aphrodisian mounds covered by thin hair.
    Moreover the governess knows of the lustful glances of the divine charioteer. She knows the weakness he has for the maidens laying in the yards at the sun. And it is with the very heat that shines from his golden chariot that he melts the frost in their virginal entrails. Then, the incorporeal penetration of his lustful strength lets them all impregnated without touching them. This is why the whip of the governess is always watching. To avoid the maidens should laid themselves down with their thighs naked at sun in the modest yard.

The purity of maidens also runs a great embarasement when they go with their servants for the choral rehearsals of the goddess Athena. The lewd idlers look at them without any modesty or circumspection. Some are so impudent as to utter loudly obscene comments. The rude slave workers, that are laboring in the ramparts, they give out insolent long whistles. And the foremen can not control their lower urges; not even by the cracking of their whips in the air.

The summer nights are another source of disruptions to the maidens virginity. During these nights, due to the sultry heat, they let small windows opened. This is a source of worries. As by these very window openings the lewd spirits of the satyrs and other lubricious beings could enter into the house. There are also liberal families that allow the women and maiden to sleep out in the yards to enjoy the fresh air of the night. And in the best part of the slumber it could happen that some lust spirits, or weird small beings, come down sliding by the rays of the moonlight. They go here and there around the sleeping maidens. And they come in near and put in their little snout, very carefully, sniffing the chaste crotch of the maidens; this occurs even in spite that we all know that they send out very subtle, almost imperceptible, scents.

It is said, but it is very difficult to prove this point, that maidens have aphrodisian dreams in the summer, full of lust fantasies. Then they twist and rave and moan in their dreams. Sometimes one sleeper wakes up with the gasping and pleasant moaning. When this happens we feel envy for pleasures of the sleeping virgin.
    Moreover, the maidens that are pious of the virgin Athena do not fall in any danger; as they are under the goddess protection. And by this same virtue their members are rigid and frigid and their bodies do not gave up any outpourings, neither any lewd smell. Some impious use to say that these saint maidens only smell of virginal tightness. Others on the contrary say there is not any smell in tightness but the virginal crotch has a scent like that of fresh yogurt. I could not join in this argument by my lack of knowledge on this point. In any case it is reputable that the lascivious spirits feel disgust for the athenian scents of sanctity. Amen.

This is a fragment from Afrodisia
     Author: Leopoldo Perdomo