Hello podcast listeners just a quick notice that in our next recording session which is on March 10

Myself and Rianen will be recording a Q&A episode

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something that we haven't said, then go to the Empress of Rome Facebook page and there'll be a PIN

topic there. We'll select some and give you the answers you potentially desire.

And now.

Are they and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I would be your host, Matt Smith, and with me as always is Dr. Rianna Evans, a lecturer in

ancient Mediterranean studies at Latrobe University.

This is episode X-L-I-V. Roman Sexuality, in which we explore the ins and outs, no

snigoring over there,

of what the Romans thought about sex,

and the role that marriage played in the Roman society.

This podcast is a listener request from Greg Kremeyan,

from Washington, D.C. in the United States,

he's Rianna Evans. The Roman system, if you want to call it that,

sexuality was quite different to ours and one of the things you might think about with regard

to the Romans is that they were always engaged in orgies because that's what happens in films.

And there's a certain amount of truth in that, in that the Romans weren't as uptight about adultery in some ways as we might be.

But basically this was something that was quite patriarchal in that if you were

a married man you didn't necessarily have to be chased. Nobody would look down on you if you had sex with other women

outside of your marriage.

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