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Friday, October 3, 2008

Libido: Naked Brunch: Porn in Ancient Rome








http://www.libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/archive/porninrome.html

"Good God, What a Night" by Petronius Arbiter

Good God, what a night that was,
The bed was so soft, and how we clung,
Burning together, lying this way and that,
Our uncontrollable passions
Flowing through our mouths.
If I could only die that way,
I'd say goodbye to the business of living.

From graffiti scrawled on the walls of Pompeii to the poetry of Ovid and Catullus, the Romans left behind an abundance of erotic material. In addition to poetry and artwork, there are many accounts of live performances ranging from the mild to the obscene that can be classified as pornographic.

4 comments:

  1. Well, libidomag.com is a very nice site. I have no special idea of the people of Rome, but many of the ancient cultures have had a more natural relation to sexuality than our uptight modern societies.
    Sexuality is the most powerful human energy. It means life par excellence.

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  2. In Pompei there is human sculpures of people caught just at the top rising moment, while having great sexual fun

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  3. Yes, libidomag is one of a kind.

    In Rome at that time, the expressions
    of passions were not suppressed,
    as much as the delight in all the coarser
    savage, unruly forms of gestures or acts of passion--
    the results of which could have been either
    a weakening or an alteration of moral values-
    we could not be certain.

    What is demanded nowadays is a certain
    convention of passion vis-a-vis a
    societal structure of morality.
    Eventually, acquiring genuine passion
    will be reached nonetheless, from
    having an understanding of the past....

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  4. Yes, they tended to find some "art"
    in the act itselt that it was good enough
    to be immortalized thru sculptures.

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