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A quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. We're s
by rhombocombus 9y ago
A quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. We're still the same animals we were back then.
- drewblaisdell 9y ago> A quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. The ancient pagans have long been thought of as lascivious - that is still consistent with the "celibate Middle Ages" narrative.
- HarryHirsch 9y agoThe Carmina Burana are from the Middle Ages. They are full of life and not celibate at all.
- dredmorbius 9y agoThe musical work dates from the 1930s, though yes, it is based on poems and texts, by the same name, from ~1000 - 1100 AD. And quite bawdy / visceral.