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I ranted against Ben Carson for being ignorant, below.

Then I realized that I had no idea about how the Romans did the deed. With guys or not.

Of course, the answer is timeless and universal. There have always been homosexuals. It is just how society reacted to it that makes the cultures different.

Here is the Roman story.

Homosexuality in Ancient Rome

Here as usual, the real discussion is about who is on top. Or the bottom.

Short answer, in Ancient Rome, both.

The Romans liked to do it and they did it many ways. One of the key elements was the idea of submission. Nothing new there. But in Rome there were castes and, if you remember from your homo-childhood fantasies, if any*, there were slaves.

You could do whatever you wanted to do with slaves and no one paid much attention.

The author Mary Renault made a mint of money with this whole idea. Gay sex and romance is rife in most of her quite successful novels.

I am happy to believe that there have always been gay people whether up or down or in or out. Even upside down.

Sometimes it takes a little longer to realize how this all works even for one's self. But once you get over the idea that it is anyone else's business, you can have a good time of it.

Incidentally, this is probably the first time that I have put an image of explicit sex in this blog. Just a note on this. I decided long ago that no one wants to see other people having it off. Not really. Unless you are a voyeur and there are a lot better media to get one's rocks off watching than a blog post.

This is not technically true. You can get aroused by anything anywhere but sometimes it is a bit like thinking of baseball scores while diddling on an internet picture. Now action videos, well........

* a copout here. I left room for never having any homo fantasies. Young or otherwise. When I am pretty sure that everyone has them at least through puberty and that they can be pretty hot.

Labels: gay history, gay marriage