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new wall paintings at pompeii; definitely NSFW
Topic Started: May 14 2010, 08:14 PM (341 Views)
bachophile
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hard core sex at pompeii

a new bulding opened at pompeii, billed as adults only. its an ancient roman spa, with some interesting decorations.

for those who have been to pompeii, u know the brothel. well, this is more or less along the same lines.

im sure there will be those that think that vesuvius was a punishment for such lasciviousness. it seems to me pompeii was really the vegas of rome.
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The more things change . . .
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Doesn't seem like anything has changed.
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Evidently people DON'T vary.
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People have changed.

Contemporary Americans don't put pictures like these in public places.

People do vary - contemporary Americans are a lot more prudish than the ancient Pompeiians.
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Some people do hang pictures like this. Certainly in brothels it is likely. I don't see any evidence this is the decorative norm for Roman dwellings.
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no wonder the Vatican felt compelled to amass 'good' and holy art.
it behooves me to behold
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Axtremus
May 15 2010, 04:24 AM
People have changed.

Contemporary Americans don't put pictures like these in public places.

People do vary - contemporary Americans are a lot more prudish than the ancient Pompeiians.
That wasn't a public place -- these were dressing rooms in a thermae. I don't see your point.

You are making a massive leap about Americans vs Pompeiians based on a few painting. It would be as if some future archeologist uncovered the Playboy Mansion and assumed this was a typical American house.
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While Pompeii may not have been completely typical of Roman culture, there isn't much question that the entire city had many very graphic sexual images throughout the public spaces - witness the city's seeming obsession with phallic symbols - carved into street pavers and embedded in walls, and the erect phallic lamps found in the ruins.

I don't think that our society is more prudish overall than Roman culture overall. But I was just watching that show "What Would You Do?" with John Quinones. It's actually a really interesting show, where they stage incidents in public with actors, and see how the people around the situation would respond. In one scene in this particular episode, the setup was an actress playing a woman in a coffee shop who was breastfeeding her baby (it was actually a doll, wrapped up in a blanket). The manager of the shop - also an actor - started yelling at her, telling her in pretty vulgar terms that she needed to stop it, he was running a restaurant, not a strip club, and that he didn't want her jugs on display (she was actually pretty discretely covered during the whole thing). They do the same scenario several times, varying the race, the age, the clothing, etc. of the "victim" to see if that changes how people react. In each of these scenarios, many of the customers in the shop came to the "mother's" support, but there were still a significant number of people who said she shouldn't be doing that in a public store; that it made them very uncomfortable. I thought that was a real shame, and that it was a sign that while we're way too expressive of sexuality in many aspects of our culture, we still have some rather prudish attitudes toward something like the very natural and non-sexual act of a mother feeding her child.
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