Sex and eroticism played an
important role in the history of ancient Rome.
model of ancient Rome
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The word porn itself comes
from the Latin word porne, which means prostitute, and if you add the word
graphie (drawing), the genre of pornography is done.
However, the attitude of the
ancient Roman citizens towards sex was controversial. On the one hand, there
were officially strict moral standards on the life of society. On the other
hand, Roman history is full of rape and orgies. Sexual perversions by emperors
and their families were a favorite theme in antiquity.
Typically, men were not expected to
have a high degree of purity in their sexual life. Society expected Roman women
to be obedient and healthy, with as many boys as possible. However, the
husbands could easily go to brothels and have a single lover
Married men could have sex with
other men without shame. However, this only applied to the penetrating man,
because the passive role was considered to be a female role, and the man who
took such a role was considered and despised.
Sex between men was accepted with
some restrictions, but not among women, because the woman who penetrated was
male, which was severely punished for a woman.
Emperor Augustus, who came to power
in the last years of the republic, believed that the morals of the Romans who
had a relatively free sex life should be improved.
Augustus
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Even though he was no
stranger to adultery, he regularly spoke out against it and enacted strict laws
to steer the Romans on the right path. It's funny that her daughter, Julia, was
one of the freest morals of her time. Occasionally she had sex on the pedestal
where Augustus used to talk about morals.
It was disgusting to wear clothes
of the opposite sex and to perform accordingly. Julius Caesar, for example, has
been accused throughout his life of living in women's clothes when he was in
the court of IV. Nicomedes (king of Bithynia).
Julius Ceasar
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And there he was a lover of
everyone. Read about his role model, Alexander the Great, here!
Tiberius was also rumored to regularly wear women's clothes on Capri
Island.
Tiberius
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Of the first Roman emperors, of
course, the greatest scandals are attributed to Nero. Stories circulated that
he had kicked his pregnant wife to death and had an incest relationship with
her mother, Agrippina. It was also recorded that two liberated male slaves had
also married them. For example, Sporus, a teenager, who very similar to Nero's
late wife, was castrated and then regularly appeared as an empress on Nero's
side.
Nero
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Also known were the notorious
orgies of Emperor Claudius' wife Messalina. The Empress regularly escaped from
the palace in the evenings to work in a notorious brothel known as
"Lycisca". She once challenged one of Rome's famous prostitutes to a
24-hour sex marathon duel. Plinius noted that the Empress had won the
competition by sleeping with 25 men in one day.
Messalina
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In the work "The Majesty's
Stories" (Historia Augusta) we read about the "unspeakably disgusting
life" of Emperor Heliogabalus. He came to power at the age of 15, and at
the age of 18, he was the victim of an assassination. During his reign, for
three years, he caused a scandal by trying to introduce an Eastern sun cult to
the religious life of the Romans, placing the new God before Jupiter.The young emperor was openly gay,
but his perversions increased his unpopularity. He allegedly "used every
opening of his body to delight and sent men to find men with the largest penis
... A man's genital size often influenced how high he was in the imperial
court." Later, Heliogabalus went even further, offering a huge fortune to
any doctor who would give him female genitalia.
Heliogabalus
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