The ancient Egyptians had set the crime of “sexual harassment” that society suffers from today in legislation deterrent penalties that might amount to execution. Egypt preceded the world’s civilised countries when it knew that crime had a dangerous social concept and dimension.
The criminal legislation was derived from the customs, morals and religious traditions of the Egyptian people. In the Egyptians’ minds, the best laws were found in people’s hearts before they were found in legislation.
If the modern Western civilization was based on the philosophy of the Greek civilization and the legislation of Roman law, it is historically proven that the ancient Egyptian society for thousands of years was interested in the development of laws and legislation to organize its security that preceded the Roman legislation by about 8 centuries, and their divine origin distinguishes these legislations. “Ra” was considered the first legislator, and this religious origin of the legislation increased the people’s respect for it.
In addition to these divine religious laws, otherworldly laws had a human source, and he was the king. He was responsible for the establishment of justice on the face of the earth. The ancient Egyptians defined divorce and stressed the punishment for the crime of adultery. The ancient Egyptian distinguished between the act of adultery and the act of adultery. Indecent assault or rape was determined that if adultery was carried out with coercion or violence, the penalty was to cut the genitals.
And the crimes of rape and adultery were punishable by death, based on the inscriptions of Ani, the Bulaq Papyrus, and the Lyed Papyrus, as the adulterers atone for their sins by death. The attempt to commit adultery (harassment) faced the same punishment, even if he did not actually commit the sinful sin. And the execution in the case of adultery was done by burning, which confirms the desire of the ancient Egyptian society to preserve their nationality and ancestry. And the consolidation of moral values ​​in society protects women from the perversion and deviation of some deviant male instincts.
He mentioned (Ptahhotep), one of the ministers in the era of (Jed Kare), the founder of the Fifth Dynasty. He has a famous book on “morals and good behaviour and has many commandments in this context, including his saying that if you want to be honourable in any house, you enter Do not approach women, for there is no place in which attachment to women’s passions enters without corruption.
Likewise, his saying: “It is wise to avoid yourself from places of excess and slippage, as well as” do not mention them from the sources of destructiveness, for thousands of men have destroyed themselves and worked to their death to enjoy the occasional pleasure that goes like a dream in the blink of an eye.