For anyone who enjoys the coarser parts of history, I recommend this thread on the graffiti found in the Roman city of Pompeii. As the author – Marina Amaral – points out, people really haven’t changed a bit. My particular favorite was this one…
“Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog”
It’s an intriguing mental image. I’m assuming it doesn’t mean that the dogs of Pompeii were particularly licky, but that Theophilus liked to get down on all fours to perform the act. An early Roman example of a submissive perhaps?
This photograph is by the Ukrainian photographer Ruslan Lobanov (deviant art, instagram and artlimited site). Hopefully, a million tons of hot ash isn’t about to engulf this particular couple.
At least many communities today have leash laws.
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Yes. I doubt those were part of the Pompeii city code :-).
-paltego