Sex in Ancient Rome
The Ancients
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How to Find a Lover in Rome
In ancient rome, women are married for the purpose of children and securing t succession. So marriage is generally arranged - it's a contract between two families. The main people whom it's not acceptable to have an affair with were free born women because they're protected under something called 'a werd that pops up lo stuprem', which means shameful act. But ovid, the poet, ovid, writes a very funny, very witty takeo ness about how to pick up women on the streets of Rome. You can sit next to them at the circus, the chariot races, and bas it, you be a bit of a sex pest. Off with them a cushion
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