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S£X AMONG THE ROMANS The Romans resented various customs of the neighboring civilizations with which they had merged: Etruscans, Sabines and Greeks. While Etruscans and Sabines respected women who were free to indulge, the Greeks feared a lot of the freedom of these, being, as a result of Doric domination, and then Hellenic, become patriarchal and rulers of women and children. the Romans therefore were a middle way, patriarchal but not entirely, until Octavian's intelligence freed them almost entirely, including sexuality. In Rome the laws protected from sexuality the minor who was not a slave, such as the Roman Lex Scantinia (or Scatinia). In Rome, free children circulated with a special amulet around their neck, the bulla, which signaled their social condition. Finally, laws existed that prohibited disguising with the clothes of the other sex, with the exception of carnival or festivals. However, in the private there was a great sexual freedom. Just look at Pompeii where the depi...

SEX AMONG THE SPARTANS Total lack of rules on female behavior until marriage. Spartan women were free to devote themselves to singing, dancing and gymnastic exercises, to give robust children to the homeland. They were also free because the slaves thought about domestic work and the children provided the nourishes. They could have any relationship before marriage but they had to remain faithful to their husband. Aristotle, as a misogynistic Athenian, is very scandalized by this: "The absence of rules on female behavior is detrimental to the spirit of the constitution and to the happiness of the city. Just as man and woman are essential parts of the house, they are the two souls of the polis. Accordingly, in all constitutions where the condition of women is not well defined, half of the polis must be considered lawless. This happened in Sparta, the, and so women live in total unrulyness and softness."

SEX AMONG THE GREEKS The Greeks knew that some prefer people of their sex, others those of the opposite sex, and others have no preference: as Plato explains through the myth of the androgynous. But even those who had preferences for their sex were obliged by Greek society to have heterosexual relationships, even if only matrimonial ones. In Greece, having sex with teenagers was a practice permitted by law, celebrated by art and literature; the example was given by Jupiter the king of the Gods, who fell in love with a child abducts him to use him at his convenience on Olympus. But the thing was not easy, the boys who gave themselves too easily, or the effeminate became the object of mockery. The relationship between men had to be explained among an adult, but it was not an easy thing, active and a teenager, passive.It was part of the education of the child, possibly when he did not yet have pubic hair. According to Phenocles Orpheus fell madly in love with the young Calais. "...

SEX AMONG THE ETRUSCANS The historian Theopompus, of the IV sec. a.c, at the court of Philip the Macedonian, is one of the sources of Etruscan usages, handed down from the quotations of Athenaeus, scholar and Greek grammarian in Rome in the II -III sec. d. We must take into account that for the Greeks the freedom of women was an insult, and if it had equal dignity of man it was an abomination, so the news must be assumed with a lot of tare, a bit like when Christian historians wrote about pagans. According to Theopompus among the Etruscans women were "held in common", but it is part of the denigration because the Etruscans had in high regard marriage and did not practice polygamy. The Etruscan woman enjoyed much more freedom and rights than Greek and Roman women: she attended the banquets lying next to her husband, much to the scandal of the Greeks, who at the banquets did not admit women, if not ethers, luxury prostitutes. Also according to Theopompus, Etruscan women took gr...

See Female Dry cleaner Who Works Totally Na*ked For Customer See Female Dry cleaner Who Works Totally Na*ked For Customer is now trending online for the unusual reasons. A 24-year-old Anna is part of Naturist Cleaners, which provides professional cleaners who visit clients’ homes or offices to clean and do other household chores while completely nude. And she earns £45 an hour for her naked duties, reports Wales Online . The company was founded by Laura Smith in 2017 in response to what she says was “a growing new interest in nude cleaning in British society” Despite having never been to any naturist events before, Anna – who says she feels comfortable being naked, and is often nude around her close friends – signed up to the service. She said: “I was new to naturism. I had never done it before – I hadn’t even been on a nudist beach or anything like that. I’d just done it in private. I wasn’t nervous because I’m quite comfortable being naked. “I found the first time quit...

Bianca Censori struggles to protect her modesty as she goes NUDE under a clear raincoat for a studio session with mask-clad husband Kanye West For most people, a raincoat would the be the accessory of choice for camping or a brisk walk on a drizzly day.  Yet Bianca Censori was on a mission to prove the humble rain poncho could also be 2024's hottest new fashion trend as she made a showstopping arrival to a Los Angeles music studio on Monday.  Proving that far less is more, the 29-year-old Australian architect wore absolutely nothing beneath her cagoule, going completely naked bar a pair of knee high black boots.  Branding across the front of the coat helped shield her ample chest, yet she was forced to place her hand over her groin to protect her modesty.  Her other hand was firmly grasped by husband Kanye West, who also appeared to be taking no chances with the Pineapple Express storm pummelling the West Coast, as he donn...

Dancing cheek to cheek! Dance group performs world-first all-naked event... in front of a NUDE audience Sydney Dance Company has performed an all naked event in front of a nude audience. As part of the Sydney Festival, the world-first event saw the dance company perform choreography inspired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales' summer show Nude: Art from the Tate Collection. With ticket sales selling slowly, extra 'nude-only' shows were added to the bill and seats sold out within a day. The show, choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, catered to nudists, or audience members brave enough to bare all. The only rules- no clothes and you had to be over 18.  'When I created this work I was not going to be shy about it,' Bonachela told The Guardian. 'Like, I am bending forward and this is my bumhole. This is how between my legs looks. I didn't choreograph like, "Let's hide this."' At the 7.30pm shows on January 14, 23 and 24 the audience wer...

Live by the sword, die by the sword: Stunning 130-year-old images of Japanese Samurai warriors for whom honour was more important than their own lives A fascinating set of photographs dating back 130 years show life inside the Japanese Samurai warrior tribes. They include a display of their tradition of Harakiri, also known as Seppuku. It was used by warriors who wanted to die with honour - either voluntarily or if they had been caught by the enemy. The ceremonial disembowelment was usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators. The most startling image shows one warrior soaked in blood with his eyes staring as the sword is plunged into his stomach. The first image of a young Samurai warrior was staged for early cameras. The Samurai originated in the Heian period dating back to 710 and in particular campaigns to subdue the native Emirishi in the Tohuku region of the northern part of Honshu.  Over the centuries they became more and more ...

I'm in awe of Lili Bernard, whose "Antebellum Appropriations" paintings are a tour-de-force that reinterpret Black women's history in the Americas by reworking classic European paintings. "Carlota Slaying the Slaver (after Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1612), Bernard has a naked, shackled woman take a knife to her slaveholder’s genitals while two other women thrust a sword into his neck and another woman holds a white witness at bay." There is so much going on in this painting. Carlota Lucumí, trafficked to Cuba as a child, was one of the leaders of a revolt against slavery in the brutal sugar mills in Matanzas, Cuba (1843). Her chest is branded, and so is that of Anastasia Escrava, a legendary Brazilian saint who is usually depicted wearing a slavery bridle.  As she is here, while castrating her rapist, which is how i read her pregnancy in this picture.  The frowning white mistress of the house is held at bay by a breasted and bearded O...

The Temple of Hercules Victor/Olivarius It was commissioned by Marcus Octavius Herennius, a wealthy olive oil wholesale merchant. According to the legend, it was dedicated to Hercules because he had dreamed of him after he survived a pirate attack while shipping oil from Africa. He was a "negotiatores oleari" an oil negotiator, a stock player in the olive oil exchange market corporation, the "arca olearia". They were the only ones authorized to treat and trade olive oil. The gens Herennia was a plebeian family of Samnites nobility origin who joined the Roman Republic during the Samnite Wars (343-290 BC) and spread around south Italy and later Africa. They were important traders of Oil and then of Silphium. Among the most notable descendants were two brothers who became emperors in 251 AD. The temple was built around 120 BC in the Forum Boarium, the largest market of Rome, besides the Portus Tiberinus, the first commercial harbor of Rome and near the Pons Aemilius, t...

Perseus and Andromeda Fresco  Roman wall-painting from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii , showing Perseus freeing Andromeda, dated: 1st century AD. / MANN The wall painting of Perseus and Andromeda was found in the House of the Dioscouri, and was painted around 50-79AD. The painting was probably copied from a painting done by Nicias, a fourth century Greek artist. The myth tells that Andromeda, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, was described by her mother as the most beautiful. The sea nymphs, the Nerieds took offense at this and complained to the sea God Posiedon. Posiedon threatened to send a flood and sea monster to destroy Ethiopia. The king was advised to sacrifice his daughter Andromeda so she was tied to a cliff near the sea to be  killed by the sea monster.  However at this time Perseus sailed past, and seeing Andromeda he immediately fell in love with her. He promised to rescue her if her parents allowed them to be married. Perseus killed the sea monster and ...

Female tourist, 28, is arrested after stripping NAKED and gatecrashing sacred performance at Bali temple, parading alongside stunned dancers  When a local man tried to stop her, she curtsied at him appearing to mimic the dancers' movements The backpacker bared-all as she posed naked on a platform above the traditional dancers The German woman continued to parade naked as she walked off the platform where the dancers continued to perform At one point she walked off the platform to kneel next to a shrine as if in prayer Darja Tuschinski, 28, was seen striding confidently past the dancers after stripping off This is the shocking moment a German tourist sparked outrage by stripping off and crashing a sacred performance at a temple in Bali - in a naked rampage which could see her face almost three years in prison. Darja Tuschinski, 28, was denied a ticket to a Hindu dance show, before allegedly pushing past security and removing her clothes in a bizarre protest. The backpacker w...

Controversial 'body positive' Channel 4 series Naked Education which showed adults stripping nude in front of children becomes one of the most complained about programmes of the year - as latest episode shows naked bicycle ride  Highly controversial show Naked Education has become one of the most complained about programmes of the year after yet another explicit episode saw participants take part in a naked bicycle ride. The Channel 4 'body positive' programme featured pre-watershed nudity, drawing further complaints from members of the public outraged at the show. Broadcast watchdog Ofcom received another 53 complaints after the episode aired last week. It takes the total to more than 1,200 complaints since the series began this year.  Some have even called for the show to be banned over fears about the impact of its explicit content on children. An earlier episode featured adults stripping naked in front of a live audience of children as young as 14...

Hanging Hanging as a means of capital punishment was mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, but became a common method of execution by the Middle Ages. In the US, it remained the primary means until the 1890s - and still today the practice is mostly unchanged where it is legal in countries including Japan and Singapore. Prisoners sentenced to be hanged are often weighed before the execution and rehearsals performed to work out how much 'drop' will be needed to kill them quickly. Too much rope can lead to decapitation after the condemned person falls through the air, and too little can result in strangulation lasting as long as 45 minutes. The most recent recorded example of this was the execution of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein. He was hanged on January 15, 2007 for crimes against humanity (along with Hussein) - but was decapitated by the rope due to a mistaken calculation about his weight and the length of the drop. Before an execution...

Nudity  is the state of being in which a human is without clothing. While estimates vary, for the first 90,000 years of pre-history, anatomically modern humans were naked, having lost their body hair and living in hospitable climates. As humans became behaviorally modern, body adornments such as jewelry, tattoos, body paint and scarification became part of non-verbal communications, indicating a person's social and individual characteristics. Indigenous peoples in warm climates used clothing for decorative, symbolic or ceremonial purposes but were often nude, having neither the need to protect the body from the elements nor any conception of nakedness being shameful. In many societies, both ancient and contemporary, children might be naked until the beginning of puberty. Women may not cover their breasts, being associated with nursing babies more than with sexuality. In the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia to the Roman Emp...