Plenty of sex in the speeches. Roman political oratory was full of sex – and especially the idea that your opponent was keen on being buggered. Adultery was (sort of) OK, so was buggering. But not what we classicists coyly call “being the passive partner”.
What term do you classicists use when you’re not being coy?
10 responses so far ↓
1 So Much For Subtlety // May 19, 2008 at 2:32 pm
“What my Husband calls the Sunday Special”?
2 Obnoxio The Clown // May 19, 2008 at 3:14 pm
A taxpayer?
3 Bishop Hill // May 19, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“Tops” and “bottoms” are the scientific terms du jour for the active and passive partners (or so I’m told).
4 Plastic Banana // May 19, 2008 at 4:28 pm
“Discussing Ugandan affirs”?
5 mary // May 19, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I think we classicists are almost always coy
6 John A // May 20, 2008 at 4:15 am
That’s not what I’ve heard about classicists – obsessed with ancient sexual terms and innuendo is more like it.
7 Simon Jester // May 20, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Bish,
Surely “tops” and “bottoms” are BDSM-specific terms for dominant and submissive partners?
I thought the classical term for someone on the receiving end of the Bulgarian vice was “catamite”.
PB,
“Discussing Ugandan affairs in Greek”?
8 Dave Tufte // May 21, 2008 at 1:29 am
I’m going back 25 years to my Roman Civ class (taught through the Classics department).
The word used by the eminent Classicist who taught the class was intracrural.
This is a bit different from what we now think of as being on the catching rather the pitching end, but it is apparently what the Romans … um … liked to do: http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/intracrural%20intercourse
9 Dave Tufte // May 21, 2008 at 1:33 am
Aargh – my first try disappeared in the ether.
I’m going back 25 years to the Roman Civ class I took through the Classics department, but the practice of the Romans, and the word for it is intracrural.
It’s presumably a bit less … hmmm … “intense” than what you’d envision for being on the catching rather than the pitching side:
http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/intracrural%20intercourse
10 mike paahana // May 28, 2008 at 5:51 am
my ex is mary an sex is great with her
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