“In a seventh-century BCE Assyrian text, for example, the scribe god Nabu praises the goddess Tashmetu with enraptured delight as the divine woman ‘whose thighs are a gazelle in the plain; whose ankle bones are an apple of Simian; whose heels are obsidian: whose whole being is a tablet of lapis lazuli’”
Foot fetish aside, men no longer describe women like this 😔
