Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sex in the Ancient World

Sex in the Ancient World
History
2009


Part.1 - Pompeii
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1380282/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaCx2H6hZg



Last Roman City of Roman - Pompeii (79 AD)


One message emerges very clearly
Pompeii was in the business of selling sex
and on a large scale.

80% population poor .. most of the sex Quick and Dirty,


Lupanar: Biggest brothel of Pompeii

41 brothel, number increases ...


Elite Private Sex Club

Voyeurism


"Sex was money"


Roman Baths.
6 public baths.



"When Pompeii was first discovered, archeologist were shocked * and they've found,
the presend of brothels and pornography led many to believe that the city was deviate
and had been destroyed by Divine wrath, just like Sodom and Ghamorah.

Certainly in Pompeii sex for hire was easy to find,
new evidence reveals a complete sexual map of Pompeii
13 curbs or rooms right of the street set aside for prostitution,
9 baths, theaters or amphitheaters were sex available for price,
at least 7 private sex club for rich,
and 41 confirmed brothels, including the world's oldest known purpose build brothel - the Lupanar Grande,
it's a lot of brothels for a city of sex thousand.


if the Pompeii was not the center of ancient prostitution,
where was the real six capital?

ROME!


37 AD just 42 years before the eruption of Vesuvius
Caligula became emperor.
..
Caligula turned sex-for-sell, into state sanction business.
He sets up a brothel inside the Emperor Palace,
the brothel is staffed by the wives, daughters and sons of leading citizens and upper class men.

Caligula was succeeded by Nero. 


 
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Part. 2 - Egypt - Turin Erotic Papyrus
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495937/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMs4rPxjYAo

Papyrus 55001, more commonly known as Turin Erotic Papyrus.


"Sex was also central to ancient creation myths.
Contained within the British Museum is an ancient papyrus
which shows how the Egyptian believed how their gods performed sexual act to create the world.
its a rare piece of evidence, which reveals the sex form magical and mystical expect to religious beliefs in ancient Egypt.

In one way the Egyptians were very different from us,
they are very discreet about human sexual activity but
when it comes to the gods the iconography to us seems just to be simple pornographic."



"But could the Turin Erotic Papyrus be the ancient pornography?


Deir el-Medina


"Woman's hair is being pulled by old man,
HAIR WAS VERY EROTIC in ancient Egypt.

Hair was one of the most erotic things a woman could have in ancient Egypt,
specially in new kingdom of in the 18th in the 19th dynasty."

"Bigger and more elaborate your wig, the sexier you are."


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