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Holy fuck, it is hot, isn't it? I mean, it is balls hot. No, no, no, we're not in the UK

during one of our intermittent heat waves. We happen to be in Cyprus for a very special event.

Luckily for you, you've just missed the gruesome precursor of the Titan Cronus,

castrating his father, the sky god Uranus, followed by him chucking his remains into the ocean.

But as you can see, the waters are stirring,

and coming to shore is none other than Aphrodite,

the goddess of love, creation and pleasure herself.

And I'm trying not to stare, but I mean, wow, wow.

I don't usually get starstruck, or in this case, tit struck,

but she is one fine-looking woman.

Aphrodite is the goddess of sex and pleasure, so she gets to have a lot of it.

But was that true for the everyday people living in ancient Greece and ancient Rome?

Huh? Did they get to behave like that too?

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