Sex in Ancient Rome
The Ancients
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What Did the Romans Think of Same Sex Tonnes?
Romans don't have a word for homosexuality, or hetrosexuality. The elite roman male should always be the penetrator and not the penetrated. When we get into same sex relationships, it's a very different concept of it. acceptable sexual partners of the same sex are not somebody own age, and certainly not of the same class. But you find reams of poetry dedicated to boys, to soft boys before they get their s beard. O catullus writes poems, very beautiful poems, to young man. And tabyllus writes poems about boys and marshal does. It's an aspect of roman society. And theyd like to be slave boys,
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