Is it true that fairy tales are actually all about sex etc?

Question

If so, how do you know and please give some examples?

Answer 1

i think so *wink wink*

Answer 2

I'm not sure if the original idea was about sex, it may have been one person or a group of people that placed scenes into fairy tales about sex. there are a few examples that I still kinda remember:
1) Lion King - when Simba was all grown up and collapses onto a pile of leaves/flowers it sends it into the wind. if u freeze it at the right moment I believe it spells out the word "sex".
2) Little Mermaid - The prince's castle is supposedly in the shape of a penis.
3) Little Mermaid - Near the end scene where the Mermaid, in human form, and the Prince is getting married, the one that weds them off has a *****.
....You're joking right?....I can say penis but i can't say b oner?

Answer 3

No that is not true. But some fairy-tales do have a story within a story like the 3 Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, The 3 Little Pigs,
Rumpelstiltskin. And the Brothers Grim and similar stories deal with the mystical aspects of this world and their superstitions and the morality of that time................................ But Sex at those times were a real NO NO...........................

Answer 4

I can't give any examples, I just wanted to know what your favorite fairy tale is? Mine is how 69 stole X-mas.

Answer 5

There was an old Mother who lived in a shoe
Lots of sex..... and way too many kids afterwards.....

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Tries to sleep in "Papa Bear Bed" but its too hard

Little Red Riding Hood
Eaten by a Wolf (or was it a 'Wolfie' ? )

Hansel and Gretl
Eaten by a Witch

Jack and the Beanstalk
Planted some beans and his stalk grew (Viagra beans?)

Snow White and the seven Dwarves
I'm not EVEN going there.......

Answer 6

I don't know, but I know of at least one that has some premarital sex implied.

After being banished from her tower by her stepmother, Rapunzel wanders the desert (or woods, depending on where the story takes place), has TWINS, and reunites with her prince, now blind.

I can't think of many more about sex, but there are MANY that started out being really violent.

The ugly/wicked stepsisters in Cinderella cut off their toes and their heels to fit into the shoe when the prince came calling. Later, their eyes were pecked out by birds.

The evil queen stepmother in Snow White was forced to wear iron shoes that had turned red from being in the fire and dance at her wedding.

The various retellings of Snow White also has her nearly killed at least two other ways. The queen disguised herself as a ribbon peddler and strangled her with the ribbons, and used a poisoned comb that would poison her if it broke the skin.

Little Red Riding Hood went BACK into the woods, and she met another wolf. She killed it with the knife her grandmother had given her.

In Sleeping Beauty, the original story didn't end with the prince waking her and the rest of the kingdom with a kiss, and all lived happily ever after. They were secretly wed and she had two children by him. HIS evil godmother banished the queen ("the sleeping beauty", named Aurora in the Disney version) and her two children to the woods, where she demands that the son be made into dinner. The prince arrives in the nick of time to save his wife and children.

Even "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (a story commonly regarded as the first and greatest American fairy tale) had one major thing that was discarded for the movie for the sake of making it less violent. In the 1939 movie, the Tinman says that the "tinsmith forgot to give him a heart." In the original novel, he was originally human. He was just a very clumsy woodsmen (probably the wrong profession for a very clumsy person to be in), and he kept accidently cutting off his limbs, then other various body parts, and having them replaced with tin, until he was entirely made of tin. In the novel "Wicked," the tinman is barely mentioned, but you do learn that that axe was bewitched to cause him to cut himself to bits.

The thing is, almost all "fairy tales" are folk tales. They existed sometimes hundreds of years before they were actually written down, and often the stories in many variations appear in multiple cultures. For example, almost all cultures have a Cinderella story unique to their culture and heritage, but not all of them have the same elements. In fact, there's even a Native American "Cinderella" (the story of Little Scarface - http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/046.html). Because of the nature of the fairy tales, their content, purpose and audiences have changed over the centuries. The majority of the "fairy tales" we know today are watered down versions of morality stories intended to either entertain adults or teach children lessons (if you wander from the straight and narrow path like that Little Red Riding Hood, a wolf will eat you).

To answer your question, yes there are some sexual undertones in several of the original stories, but they weren't "actually all about" sex. As in, they weren't inteded to be along the same lines as erotica novels today. You were MUCH more likely to run into violence and fear-inspiring imagery than you were sex.

There are many many many scholarly websites and articles out there. I would suggest you Google a few of them. They're really very interesting.

Answer 7

Maybe that's where my sex addiction started.. There we go - I'll blame it all on the fairy tales! ;)

Answer 8

No. Just a bunch of stupid people reading way deeper into the stories than need to be. You can make ANYTHING 'dirty' if you want. Just have to have a warped mind and imagination.

Answer 9

They are more about rites of passage and our most primal fears.

Answer 10

they seem to be. but thats just my opinion