08-12-2006, 02:58 PM
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I suspect that you have had a rather unusual upbringing, if you find the Roman mosaics and statues to be that much more explicit than modern day television, movies, songs, and art.
Perhaps the dipictation of the various forms of male reproductive organs are a bit more noticible, but then, Priapus is a diety of protection, good fortune and material increase.
There is nothing available in ancient Pompeii erotica that is not also available in the modern (christian?) USA or Europe. In fact, many of the bits of clothing worn by modern people in public would have been seen as obscene in certain periods of Rome's history, especially when worn in public. In a modern brothel, would you not expect to find similar items? Of course, they might be photographs instead of mosaics, but .....
In many art museums in (christian???) America, you will find paintings of nudes, statues of nudes, something erotic. In the truck stops and convenience stores across the USA you would find obscene graffitti in the toilets, with rude pictures, and erotic magazines and books, where not limited by local laws. In many places in Western Europe there is no ban on erotic expression, and som e cities have yearly erotic parades (if they can find sponsors).
I suspect that you are basing your shock and surprise at Pompeii on your own experience, which may not reflect the experiences of other modern Americans or Europeans.
Christians and Sex? There are as many different groups of Christians and different beliefs in what is allowed as there are denominations and splinter groups. I found in a short look on the internet a Christian group of nudists, and many Christian works on sex, how to, how not to, and so on.
Not everyone is as prudish about the human body and human reproduction as certain conservative religious and political groups try to legislate. You can be really animalistic and crazy and not be sex-mad. You can be really civilized and sexual. Look at Ben Franklin (American Historical figure), for a very good example.
I suspect that you have had a rather unusual upbringing, if you find the Roman mosaics and statues to be that much more explicit than modern day television, movies, songs, and art.
Perhaps the dipictation of the various forms of male reproductive organs are a bit more noticible, but then, Priapus is a diety of protection, good fortune and material increase.
There is nothing available in ancient Pompeii erotica that is not also available in the modern (christian?) USA or Europe. In fact, many of the bits of clothing worn by modern people in public would have been seen as obscene in certain periods of Rome's history, especially when worn in public. In a modern brothel, would you not expect to find similar items? Of course, they might be photographs instead of mosaics, but .....
In many art museums in (christian???) America, you will find paintings of nudes, statues of nudes, something erotic. In the truck stops and convenience stores across the USA you would find obscene graffitti in the toilets, with rude pictures, and erotic magazines and books, where not limited by local laws. In many places in Western Europe there is no ban on erotic expression, and som e cities have yearly erotic parades (if they can find sponsors).
I suspect that you are basing your shock and surprise at Pompeii on your own experience, which may not reflect the experiences of other modern Americans or Europeans.
Christians and Sex? There are as many different groups of Christians and different beliefs in what is allowed as there are denominations and splinter groups. I found in a short look on the internet a Christian group of nudists, and many Christian works on sex, how to, how not to, and so on.
Not everyone is as prudish about the human body and human reproduction as certain conservative religious and political groups try to legislate. You can be really animalistic and crazy and not be sex-mad. You can be really civilized and sexual. Look at Ben Franklin (American Historical figure), for a very good example.
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