{"id":13393,"date":"2025-09-30T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:14:31","slug":"hypatia-and-her-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/hypatia-and-her-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypatia and Her Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An excerpt from the journal of Basile Yanovsky, M.D. reprinted in Michael Rubin,\u00a0<b>Men Without Masks: Writings from the Journals of Modern Men<\/b>\u00a0(Addison-Wesley, 1980), p. 206:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A woman philosopher and religious teacher of the fourth century, Hypatia of Alexandria, had a striking discussion with her lover. To discourage his earthly temptations, she addressed him, at the most passionate moment of their relations, in the following manner: &#8220;See what it is you adore,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/archytas\/\">Archytas<\/a>, this foul matter, this corruption, with its secretions, its excrements and its infections. . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the tenacious and passionate Archytas gave her this answer: &#8220;It is not matter I love, but form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How many times, discouraged and depressed in the V. D. clinic, have I repeated these saintly words of Archytas. . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/1973\/02\/22\/veni-vici-vd\/#:~:text=In%20general%2C%20I%20disapprove%20of,how%20to%20get%20round%20that.\">Veni, Vici, V. D.<\/a>, W. H. Auden reviews Dr. Yanovsky&#8217;s <b>The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor&#8217;s Logbook.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from the journal of Basile Yanovsky, M.D. reprinted in Michael Rubin,\u00a0Men Without Masks: Writings from the Journals of Modern Men\u00a0(Addison-Wesley, 1980), p. 206: A woman philosopher and religious teacher of the fourth century, Hypatia of Alexandria, had a striking discussion with her lover. To discourage his earthly temptations, she addressed him, at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/hypatia-and-her-lover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hypatia and Her Lover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,70,42,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-matters","category-men-and-women","category-sex-love-lust","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13406,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}