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Sex in Ancient Rome

26 September 2021 By LJ Trafford

Sexual activity in Ancient Rome wasn’t the licentious free-for-all we may imagine (especially for women); in fact it was strictly regulated. But author and historian LJ Trafford has unearthed plenty of weird and lurid facts about Ancient Roman sex for her new book, as she tells Historia. When my publisher suggested to me that I […]

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by LJ Trafford

23 September 2021 By Editor

From emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is one of sexual excess: emperors gripped by perversion partaking in pleasure with […]

Merkins and masochists: a brief history of sex

17 May 2019 By Jemahl Evans

Sex was just as naughty and inventive in previous centuries as in our lifetimes, despite our perceptions of the past as often prudish, writes author Jemahl Evans. It’s just public attitudes that have changed

Rake, Whores and Highwaymen

1 January 2015 By Antonia Hodgson

Every generation likes to think it invented sex. After all, the alternative is to accept your parents were at it, which is unthinkable. But attitudes towards sex – how we talk about it, how open and relaxed we are about it – do fluctuate. You can’t track a straight, progressive line from year zero to […]

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