Sexuality in Pompeii

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today we're looking at sexuality in Pompeii through the lens of the so called "Two Maidens", found embracing in their final moments. Join us as we discuss how toxic masculinity skews our views of the past, read some sexy graffiti, and discover what may be the only surviving piece of female-female love poetry in ancient Rome. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:04.1	and throughout time.
0:05.2	I'm Alice.
0:06.0	I'm Irene.
0:06.9	And I'm Jason.
0:07.9	And today we're talking about the so-called Two Maidens of Pompeii.
0:19.4	I have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:22.3	This episode will include mentions of slavery, mentions of sex work, discussions of death
0:26.7	in volcanic eruption, discussions of historic and modern sexism and queer phobia, and also
0:32.2	explicit mentions of sex and some swearing in quotes.
0:36.1	Before we get started, I want to mention that this isn't the episode we plan to bring
0:40.2	out today.
0:41.2	Eli has unexpectedly gone interstate.
0:43.9	He will be back in time for our next episode, but he's not here today to present the
0:47.9	episode that we planned, which means this has been a very last minute episode to put together.
0:53.7	Because of that, I do want to acknowledge that
0:55.2	I researched this exclusively last night, that being Friday, the episode coming out on
1:01.2	Monday. So there are things that I normally would have looked into in more depth that I didn't
1:06.3	have time to look into for this episode. That said, I don't think I'm telling you anything that's
1:10.7	incorrect.
1:11.5	I just mean that there are aspects that I would have researched more thoroughly and
1:15.6	probably, you know, aspects that I would have explored in more depth that I didn't
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