Like A Virgin, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Deuteronomy 22:13-21, oh what fun
Besmirch the virgin, what have you done?
100 shekels, amerce this man
Fine paid to the father, not this lass

No thought to her thoughts,
Or to her injury
It is all about the male patriarchy
She is just their property

Chattel to be bartered, between families
But if the husband’s accusations are true
And she is not pure as promised to
This is what the elders will do

Stones not sticks, will break her bones
Crush her skull and collapse her lungs
Tossed out like garbage
Though no crime was done

Do you know a little
About a guy named Lot
His male angel friends
Put him on the spot

They were weary travelers
Who had come to spend the night
But wicked townsmen came to rape them
Standing at his gate

Lot appealed to the men
To do not such a vile deed
Then offered up his virgin daughters
“Take them instead I plead”

If you’re a father with one young and fair
If some stranger were to dare
To deflower this maiden’s rose
A mere fine is to be imposed

Once again, no concern for the female
Or to the trauma that has been done
The father can force him to marry her
For what least she be shunned

The ignorance of biology in antiquity
The stigma of periods, menstruation
They could not see, the vile motif
Of bartering purity

Even the most famous
Virgin of all
Barely a a mention
After Gabriel’s call

No words on her thoughts
Her desires or needs
Just a field for God
To plant his invisible seed
(end)

Yes this is blasphemous, and it is intended to offend. Not out of hate, but in the context of pointing out the ignorance of the writers of antiquity. Purity, even in polytheism was a widespread commodity where females were bartered between families to create economic stability. Nobody back then understood that periods and menstruation were natural.

Notes on the poem.

Deuteronomy 22:13-21 basically says that if a man lies about his new wife and claims she is not a virgin and she is, the townspeople will fine him 100 Shekels. But if she is not pure and she has lied to the family she will be stoned to death. Don’t blame me, I wouldn’t write such vile crap.

Genesis 19:1-11, Male angels come to visit lot, and the male townspeople of Sodom find out and come and demand Lot give them up so they can rape them. Lot pleads with them not to rape his angel friends and offers up his virgin daughters instead. Again, don’t blame me, I didn’t write this vile crap.

Deuteronomy , 22:28-29, basically says that if a man rapes another man’s daughter, he will be charged a fine of 50 shekels, and the father can even force the rapist to marry his victim.

And even the most famous virgin in that book of mythology you hardly hear from. A few words at Gabriel’s at his announcement then a few words at his execution. Written as if she was merely a prop.