Sex in Ancient Rome

The Ancients

History Hit

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4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We’ve covered bloody battles, we’ve covered stunning cities, we’ve covered civilisations far away from the ancient Mediterranean. But in some 120 episodes of The Ancients we hadn’t covered one of the most popular topics in the world: sex. That is, until now. In today’s episode, strap yourself in for almost an hour’s worth of content all about what the Romans thought of sex. What was acceptable? What wasn’t? And why were the Romans so obsessed with carving penises at sites across the Roman Empire. From Pompeii to Hadrian’s Wall. Joining Tristan in today’s podcast is L J Trafford, the author of the upcoming book Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome. Suffice to say, adult themes feature in this episode.

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0:00.0	It's the Ancient's on History Hit.
0:05.7	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast, well it's the episode that I'm sure
0:10.8	a lot of you have been waiting for if the popularity of similar episodes on other history
0:16.6	hit podcasts is anything to go by.
0:19.9	It's also an episode which my editor has confidently proclaimed will be an instant hit.
0:26.0	So we've set the bar very high because it's all about sex in ancient Rome.
0:31.6	We're going to be looking at the archaeology.
0:34.0	We're going to be looking at the large amount of sexual imagery that survives from across
0:38.1	the Roman Empire, what it all potentially means and we're also going to be looking at
0:42.6	the literature and so much more.
0:45.9	Joining me to talk about sex in ancient Rome I was delighted to get on the show, the author
0:50.5	L.J.
0:52.2	has written a number of books about ancient Rome and one of the most recent books is all
0:57.7	about sex and sexuality in this ancient civilisation.
1:02.3	This was a really fun shot, L.J. was wonderful to talk to and just before we get into it,
1:07.3	I thought I'd also let you know very quickly that I've also now just joined Instagram.
1:12.6	I know right finally.
1:14.6	But if you were all interested in seeing behind the scenes footage of these ancient interviews,
1:20.6	little hints at what future episodes are going to be as well as behind the scenes footage
1:26.0	of ancient history documentaries that we are shooting at History Hit, then why not give me
1:30.1	a follow at Ancient's Tristan.
1:32.7	But back to the podcast at hand because here's L.J. to talk all about sex in ancient Rome.
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