Roman Sexualities by Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner
By Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner
A set of essays looking to determine Roman structures of sexuality and gender distinction as a special region of study, complementing paintings already performed on Greece, in an try and current a fuller photograph of historic sexuality. by way of utilising feminist severe instruments to types of public discourse, together with literature, historical past, legislations, medication, and political oratory, the essays discover the hierarchy of strength mirrored in so much Roman sexual family members, the place noblemen acted because the penetrators, and girls, boys and slaves the penetrated. in lots of situations, the authors express how those roles can be inverted, in ways in which published electorate' anxieties in the course of the days of the early Empire, whilst conventional strength constructions appeared threatened.
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12. with one finger with one who obviously wants to be penetrated byanother man. How many of us make the same assumption? 13. A standard ploy of Roman political rhetoric was to accuse one's opponent of having allowed himself to be sexually penetrated by other males when he was a youth. See, for instance, Hallett 1977 on the role of accusations of effeminacy in the propaganda war between Octavian and Antony. 14. As Santoro L'hoir 1992 shows. 15. For a discussion of the ancient sources that refer to the lex Sca(n)tinia, see Lilja 1983: 112-21.
See also Adams 1982: 188-89. 2. , SaIl. Cat. 3; Tac. Ann. 11; Dig. 6 (Ulpian). 3. See Hallett 1989a: 221ff. on the perceived need for a phallus in Roman representations of lesbian sexual activity. 4. , Priapea 3; Sen. Controv. 22), but these are much rarer than references to vaginal penetration. 5. See, for example, Gonfroy 1978 and Verstraete 1980. 6. As Santoro L'hoir 1992 has shown. 7. See, for instance, vVyke 1987, and Kennedy 1993, especially 28ff. 8. " 9. Ep. 21: "These women are as bad as men in their sexual appetites, and, though nature made them sexually passive, they think up a new form of perversity and even ...
The sexually active woman is a monster. Further, the vertical axis of the three holes creates its own anomalies. First, while the anus and vagina are thought of primarily as passive (mere receptacles for action), the mouth is problematic, a difficulty of conceptualization again shown in the language itself. Passive oral sex (irrumart) has the active counterpart of sucking lfellare, Adams 1982: 130-34). Thus, for the Romans, oral intercourse crosses classificatory boundaries. Disturbingly, it is both active and passive.