Ancient graffiti from Pompeii

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VIII.1 (above a bench outside the Marine Gate); 1751: If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.
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VII.12.35 (Vico d’ Eumachia, small room of a possible brothel); 2145: Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women
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Some of these are really funny and shows deep down inside, humans really haven't changed that much over the centuries.
 
Riesstiu IV said:
Some of these are really funny and shows deep down inside, humans really haven't changed that much over the centuries.
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Fortunately we are so obsessed by sex otherwise we wouldn't be here to talk about it. ;)
 
I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
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This one has to be my favourite. What a classy way to come out to the world...! :lol:
 
Che Guava said:
This one has to be my favourite. What a classy way to come out to the world...! :lol:
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Nah, he ain't gay the way the Romans saw things.

Yer only queer if you let someone other guy do it TO you. Doing him just tells everybody you're a real man's man.:p

There are poems by Catullus that rarely get translated. Mostly they deal with Catullus threatening to screw other men as punishment ("I'll rake your mouths and behinds!" etc.).

Someone round here like Kafka2 could prolly do a wonderful writeup about Roman sexual practices. :D
 
Right, I forgot you're only gay if you're the 'girl'. I guess things really haven't changed that much....
 
Marla_Singer said:
Fortunately we are so obsessed by sex otherwise we wouldn't be here to talk about it. ;)
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Which is why there are about 30 phone numbers on any given HS bathroom stall or wall.
 
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I can hardley belive this one exists at all! shows the Romans had a very nice sense of irony ;)

II.4.1 (bar; left of the door, near a picture of Mercury); 8475: Palmyra, the thirst-quencher
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another good 'un :D

VII.12.18-20 (the Lupinare); 2175: I screwed a lot of girls here.
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VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!
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Well Xen, Lupinare actually means the whorehouse. In Roman times, whorehouses were considered as perfectly decent.

SeleucusNicator said:
Wow, looks like Attice had an ex-boyfriend.
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Actually I think it's simply Attice's pimp who had written it. ;)

That's about the same as the posters for sex phones we can find all over the world today I guess... except that here it's for prostitution. But hey, christian values weren't there yet (and even less American puritanism).
 
Marla_Singer said:
Well Xen, Lupinare actually means the whorehouse. In Roman times, whorehouses were considered as perfectly decent.
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I find the fact that he's advertising for the whore house far more funny then the statement, taken plainlly ;)
 
What I find most odd about it is that there isn't anything political. "The Mob" was far more politically passionate than modern populations - surprising there was not at least mention of an unpopular public figure or the like. Unless these were quickly removed by authorities?
 
Pompeii was a resort town for the Roman super-rich; that they woudl go thier perhaps exclusivlly to escape from the political troubles of the capital wouldnt be surprising.
 
frekk said:
What I find most odd about it is that there isn't anything political. "The Mob" was far more politically passionate than modern populations - surprising there was not at least mention of an unpopular public figure or the like. Unless these were quickly removed by authorities?
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I.7.1 (in the vestibule of the House of Cuspius Pansa); 8075: The finances officer of the emperor Nero says this food is poison
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Not very political but it does mention Emperor Nero.
 
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