Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist: William Russell Flint - Calypso and Odysseus

For Homer and the Ancient Greeks, the story of Odysseus's captivity by Calypso doubtlessly got viewed as his emasculation. From their point of view, women, not men, got taken prisoner and forced to sexually satisfy their captors. The hero's plight thus stands as peculiar.

Yet among lashunta, under the Matriarchy, his imprisonment would not peculiar, but possibly commonly? How many Korasha males could relate to his experience, bound to serve a Damaya against their wishes, under threat of banishment or other abuse?