My favorite is the myth of Tiresias, just because it's hilarious and outright bizarre.
So this guy Tiresias is walking along, doing Greek dude things, when he comes across a pair of snakes in the act of doing the do. For whatever reason, he decided the best thing to do in this situation was to rudely whack the reptilian couple with a stick. Upon doing so, he was instantly transformed into a woman, because Greek mythology.
(Some versions of the myth state that Hera turned him into a woman as punishment for hitting the snakes, but I prefer the version where it just happens for no apparent reason. It's more hilarious that way.)
He then proceeded to spend seven years living as a woman, like it weren't no thang ("Oh darn, I'm a lady now. Ah well, time to go do lady things.") During that time, he... she... Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, got married, and had children, and according to some versions, became a well-renowned prostitute.
At the end of these seven years, Lady Tiresias once again came across a pair of boinking snakes and, because old habits die hard, hit them with a stick like the last pair, which turned him back into a man.
Soon after this, Zeus and Hera came down from Olympus and appeared before him. They'd heard of his.... ah, unique, experiences... and wanted him to settle a dispute between them as to which gender experienced the most pleasure during sex. Zeus claimed that it was women who got the most out of it, while Hera insisted that it was surely the men who got more satisfaction from the bumping of uglies. Why they were even having this debate is lost to time, but it was probably after Zeus stuck it in yet another something that wasn't his wife.
Tiresias, having gotten laid as both a man and as a woman, was naturally more than qualified to provide his input, and after considering for a bit, sided with Zeus, saying that women received more pleasure during intercourse.
And then, because the gods of Greek myth were colossal dicks and infamous sore losers, Hera got mad at him for siding with her husband and struck him blind. Zeus couldn't undo his wife's curse, but he made it up to him by granting him the gift of prophecy.
Frickin' Greek mythology, amirite?
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