Pompeii's Hoe of the Vettii reopens: A remr that Roman sexualy was far more plex than simply gay or straight

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! If you vis the archeologil place wh our gay-iendly gui, you learn several thgs about LGBTQ+ life ancient Roman civilizatn, led by a few Untold Histori you probably haven’t heard before. Vis ho, streets and thermal baths adorned wh artwork pictg sex scen and homosexual the suburban thermal baths watch sixteen scen of gay sex between two men, two women and a threome, as Catull wrote the Carmen 56.

While heterosexual relatns were the norm, homosexualy was very mon Pompeii, and apparently the Lat vobulary don’t even distguish between hetero- and homo-sexual inti. In those days, homosexual relatns were also que equent between powerful men.

DO ANCIENT ART OM POMPEII PROVE THE BIBLE SUPPORTS GAY “MARRIAGE”?

As a gay man and a rearcher on sexualy, I am all too faiar wh the ways morn gay men look to ancient Rome search of evince that there have always been people like . It is now clear among the rearch muny that such straightforward readgs of homosexualy classil history are flawed.

Dpe this, I unrstand how polilly important and strategic was for the early homosexual movement to vent s own myth of orig and to populate history wh figur that had been—they thought—jt like . The flip si of morn notns of homosexualy beg read to Roman history, is the way which the wispread prence of sex ancient Roman (cludg the graffi and visual culture prerved Pompeii) has been disavowed or—at least—purified by mastream morn culture. Pompeii's Hoe of the Vettii reopens: A remr that Roman sexualy was far more plex than simply gay or straight (2023, January 23).

SCIENTIST REVEAL EMBRACG FIGUR AT POMPEII ‘COULD HAVE BEEN GAY LOVERS’

Rape and regulatnHomosexualy the legnsLbian loveThe time of ChristianyDurg the time of the Republic, Roman cizens had the right (libertas) to protect their bodi om physil ercn, cludg both rporal punishment and sexual vlence. Roman cup showg a homosexual sex was socially acceptable for a ee-born Roman to have sex wh a woman or a man assumg a domant role.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS POMPEI

Generally speakg, civilian life, homosexualy was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evinced by referenc source texts, which noted outrageo, characteristic and equent thgs), and such relatns were tolerated, as I mentned if the Roman cizen was an active party ( otherwise, Roman blood was ntamated. Homosexualy among men was tolerated and accepted but was fely not the if any high-rankg ee-born Roman allowed himself to be passive durg terurse, he risked mockery. However, Caligula, wh the nsistent characteristic of the mentally ill, although he himself is strongly bisexual, orred all homosexuals to be sent to hard labour Sardia one day.

Roman dictator Luci Sulla was not ee om homosexualy, too, he always took wh him, for every war and expedn, a host of his young lover. Dpe the fact that the Romans viewed marriage as a heterosexual relatnship for procreatn, the early Empire, some homosexual upl managed to get married the pany of iends.

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