Communion with the deity. According to Burgo Partridge (A History of Orgies, 1958), the Greeks used (among other sexual practices) some SM-type activities in order to achieve the ecstatic state of theolepsy during the festival known as the Dionysia (rites dedicated to the god Dionysus).
Written by author and journalist Heather Greene.
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