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Drosilla and Charikles shows college sex police can be redeemed
The old woman Maryllis hadn’t laughed or danced for eight years. She was a single mother, and her son’s death had crushed her spirit and judgment. How could she not now hate young men? So it might be...
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naked ass-driver and ass from Octavian to Byzantium in 1204
Octavian’s naval forces confronted those of Cleopatra and her beloved Marc Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BGC. Octavian, who became Caesar Augustus, won a decisive victory. He then erected a...
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from Byzantine maiden as mixture of milk and roses to кровь с молоком
A novel written in Greek verse in Constantinople about 1156 described the beautiful maiden Drosilla: she seemed a mixture of milk and roses and it looked as though nature, like a painter, had coloured...
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how Hysmine enthralled Hysminias: hazards of herald service
At a public banquet honoring the virgin herald Hysminias, the serving maiden Hysmine whispered welcome to him. She served him a cup of wine. Thirsty, hot, and sweaty, Hysminias relished the delightful...
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castration culture promotes vicious, jealous eunuchs as officials
The twelfth-century Byzantine novel Aristandros and Kallithea reported: They say that once a viper, mother of poisons, managed to bite a eunuch, and promptly expired, for it had tasted blood that was...
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Andronikos defied Spartan mothers, rejected soldier’s role
Spartan mothers promoting violence against men have cast a long shadow across history. A twelfth-century Byzantine novel declared: Those who have been reared with weapons and those experienced in...
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Byzantine literature can help men overcome romantic simplicity
When in love with a woman, most men in their purity and innocence simply want to have sex with her. But life gets much more complicated. Consider, for example, the case of Hysminias in twelfth-century...
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Maximianus’s Greek girl mourned men’s complacent impotence
I blushed, I froze. Since shame then made me lose my mind and panic cut off the alluring task, she started fondling my burning prick by hand and she aroused me with her fingers too. Even the strokes of...
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Boethius’s wife Rusticiana sought to bring him true happiness
“But you say you desire to hear more: with what desire you would burn if you knew where I will lead you!” “Where?” I asked. “To true happiness,” she said, “of which your spirit dreams, but you cannot...
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resurrection: overcoming the poetic problem with penises & erections
While men’s status is scarcely an issue of contemporary public concern, men’s impotence has catastrophic long-term effects on society. Men commonly feel anxiety about their bodily endowment and...
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women’s desire to be on top benefits guileful man selling goose
In early fifteenth-century Italy, a young peasant man was walking to Florence to sell a goose. The goose had a long, thick neck. A woman noticed him: Considering herself to be witty, she for the sake...
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Latin love teaching of Facetus: Moribus et vita miseducated men
Charles Darwin’s seminal 1871 book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, pushed down men’s sexual status along with much subsequent, poor-quality academic work on sexual selection. Yet...
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sardonic literature necessary to complement romantic medievalism
We are living without enlightenment in an age of romantic medievalism. Popular tales of King Arthur and his knights of the round table compete as cultural parodies with the Pulitzer Prize for general...
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Hugh Primas: overcome sexual-market injustice with medieval education
O, how harsh is Primas’s fortune! { O quam dura sors Primatis! } The current social construction of gender and sexuality makes sex a service that men predominately purchase from women. Men pay women...
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