Pompeii's Hoe of the Vettii reopens: A remr that Roman sexualy was far more plex than simply gay or straight

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• "GAY" POMPEII
• COULD THE REMAS FOUND IN POMPEII BE GAY LOVERS?"POMPEII NEVER CEAS TO AMAZE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY BRANDON VOSSAPRIL 9, 2017/2:09 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}MARTA IWANEK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGTORONTO, ON-JUNE 10 - CASTS OF PEOPLE FOUND THE S OF POMPEII ON DISPLAY AT THE ROM'S POMPEII EXHIBN. (MARTA IWANEK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAG)BY BRANDON VOSSAPRIL 9, 2017 / 2:09 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"COULD THE REMAS FOUND IN POMPEII BE GAY LOVERS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-04-09T18:09:46.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-04-09T18:09:46.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMONG THOSE VERED BENEATH LAVA AND ASH POMPEII WHEN MOUNT VUVI VLENTLY EPTED 79 A.D., TWO PEOPLE PRERVED A FAL EMBRACE MAY HAVE BEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SCIENTISTS RECENTLY FOUND THAT THE NUZZLG FIGUR, DUBBED “THE TWO MAINS” UPON FIRST DISVERY, WERE ACTUALLY MAL, THE TELEGRAPH REPORTS. EXTENSIVE ANTHROPOLOGIL TTS OF THE BON AND TEETH REVEAL THAT THE MEN WERE ABOUT 18 AND 20 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"POMPEII NEVER CEAS TO AMAZE," SAYS MASSIMO OSANNA, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE ARCHAEOLOGIL SE. "WE ALWAYS IMAGED THAT WAS AN EMBRACE BETWEEN WOMEN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEAD OF THE POMPEII REARCH TEAM, PROFSOR STEFANO VANARE SAYS THAT SOME SCHOLARS NOW SUGGT THERE ULD HAVE BEEN "AN EMOTNAL NNECTN BETWEEN THE PAIR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AS MUCH FUN AS IS TO IMAGE THAT THEY WERE LOVERS, VANARE SAYS 'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TERME THE TE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP ALMOST 2,000 YEARS LATER. THEY N, HOWEVER, LE OUT THAT THE TWO MEN WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS POMPEI
• THE GAY HISTORY OF POMPEII
• POMPEII'S HOE OF THE VETTII REOPENS: A REMR THAT ROMAN SEXUALY WAS FAR MORE PLEX THAN SIMPLY GAY OR STRAIGHT
• DO ANCIENT ART OM POMPEII PROVE THE BIBLE SUPPORTS GAY “MARRIAGE”?
• SCIENTIST REVEAL EMBRACG FIGUR AT POMPEII ‘COULD HAVE BEEN GAY LOVERS’
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS POMPEI

"GAY" POMPEII

"Gay" Pompeii. “‘Gay’ Pompeii: Pompeian Art and Homosexualy the Early Twentieth Century.

COULD THE REMAS FOUND IN POMPEII BE GAY LOVERS?"POMPEII NEVER CEAS TO AMAZE."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY BRANDON VOSSAPRIL 9, 2017/2:09 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}MARTA IWANEK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGTORONTO, ON-JUNE 10 - CASTS OF PEOPLE FOUND THE S OF POMPEII ON DISPLAY AT THE ROM'S POMPEII EXHIBN. (MARTA IWANEK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAG)BY BRANDON VOSSAPRIL 9, 2017 / 2:09 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"COULD THE REMAS FOUND IN POMPEII BE GAY LOVERS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-04-09T18:09:46.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-04-09T18:09:46.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMONG THOSE VERED BENEATH LAVA AND ASH POMPEII WHEN MOUNT VUVI VLENTLY EPTED 79 A.D., TWO PEOPLE PRERVED A FAL EMBRACE MAY HAVE BEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SCIENTISTS RECENTLY FOUND THAT THE NUZZLG FIGUR, DUBBED “THE TWO MAINS” UPON FIRST DISVERY, WERE ACTUALLY MAL, THE TELEGRAPH REPORTS. EXTENSIVE ANTHROPOLOGIL TTS OF THE BON AND TEETH REVEAL THAT THE MEN WERE ABOUT 18 AND 20 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"POMPEII NEVER CEAS TO AMAZE," SAYS MASSIMO OSANNA, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE ARCHAEOLOGIL SE. "WE ALWAYS IMAGED THAT WAS AN EMBRACE BETWEEN WOMEN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEAD OF THE POMPEII REARCH TEAM, PROFSOR STEFANO VANARE SAYS THAT SOME SCHOLARS NOW SUGGT THERE ULD HAVE BEEN "AN EMOTNAL NNECTN BETWEEN THE PAIR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT AS MUCH FUN AS IS TO IMAGE THAT THEY WERE LOVERS, VANARE SAYS 'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TERME THE TE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP ALMOST 2,000 YEARS LATER. THEY N, HOWEVER, LE OUT THAT THE TWO MEN WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

” In Ancient Rome and the Constctn of Morn Homosexual Inti. However, some rearchers now believe the pair were, fact, gay lovers.

Some art featur men and women engaged more tradnal acts of sexual while many the past assumed the pair were brothers, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Pompeii archaeologil park, told The Guardianthere’s a far gayer explanatn.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS POMPEI

”While there’s no five proof the pair of eed slav were gay lovers, ’s a safe bet to assume Priap was a top if me to n learn more about Pompeii and the Hoe of Vettii at the webse or on Instagram (@pompii_par_archeologi). D., two people prerved a fal embrace may have been gay. Table of ntentsElectoral propaganda at PompeiiGeneral graffi at PompeiiConversatn between Succs and SevesSeems like Gladiator Barracks got a lot of actnSome were preachy tooLooks like prostut Pompeii were popularBars seemed like a good place to pick up partnersHygiene Pompeii seemed to be sendaryBeg a relatnship was olLove was given first preferenceIn Pompeii, was OK to boast about your sex lifeBeg gay was ol tooFriendship was importantIn Pompeii, some were always jealoAnd fally someone thanked the walls of Pompeii for holdg so much graffi.

Beg gay was ol too. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

THE GAY HISTORY OF POMPEII

If you vis the archeologil place wh our gay-iendly gui, you learn several thgs about LGBTQ+ life ancient Roman civilizatn, led by a few Untold Histori you probably haven’t heard before.

Vis ho, streets and thermal baths adorned wh artwork pictg sex scen and homosexual the suburban thermal baths watch sixteen scen of gay sex between two men, two women and a threome, as Catull wrote the Carmen 56. While heterosexual relatns were the norm, homosexualy was very mon Pompeii, and apparently the Lat vobulary don’t even distguish between hetero- and homo-sexual inti.

In those days, homosexual relatns were also que equent between powerful men. As a gay man and a rearcher on sexualy, I am all too faiar wh the ways morn gay men look to ancient Rome search of evince that there have always been people like . It is now clear among the rearch muny that such straightforward readgs of homosexualy classil history are flawed.

POMPEII'S HOE OF THE VETTII REOPENS: A REMR THAT ROMAN SEXUALY WAS FAR MORE PLEX THAN SIMPLY GAY OR STRAIGHT

Dpe this, I unrstand how polilly important and strategic was for the early homosexual movement to vent s own myth of orig and to populate history wh figur that had been—they thought—jt like .

The flip si of morn notns of homosexualy beg read to Roman history, is the way which the wispread prence of sex ancient Roman (cludg the graffi and visual culture prerved Pompeii) has been disavowed or—at least—purified by mastream morn culture.

DO ANCIENT ART OM POMPEII PROVE THE BIBLE SUPPORTS GAY “MARRIAGE”?

Pompeii's Hoe of the Vettii reopens: A remr that Roman sexualy was far more plex than simply gay or straight (2023, January 23).

Rape and regulatnHomosexualy the legnsLbian loveThe time of ChristianyDurg the time of the Republic, Roman cizens had the right (libertas) to protect their bodi om physil ercn, cludg both rporal punishment and sexual vlence. Roman cup showg a homosexual sex was socially acceptable for a ee-born Roman to have sex wh a woman or a man assumg a domant role. Generally speakg, civilian life, homosexualy was rather rare and treated reluctantly (as evinced by referenc source texts, which noted outrageo, characteristic and equent thgs), and such relatns were tolerated, as I mentned if the Roman cizen was an active party ( otherwise, Roman blood was ntamated.

SCIENTIST REVEAL EMBRACG FIGUR AT POMPEII ‘COULD HAVE BEEN GAY LOVERS’

Homosexualy among men was tolerated and accepted but was fely not the if any high-rankg ee-born Roman allowed himself to be passive durg terurse, he risked mockery. However, Caligula, wh the nsistent characteristic of the mentally ill, although he himself is strongly bisexual, orred all homosexuals to be sent to hard labour Sardia one day. Roman dictator Luci Sulla was not ee om homosexualy, too, he always took wh him, for every war and expedn, a host of his young lover.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS POMPEI

Dpe the fact that the Romans viewed marriage as a heterosexual relatnship for procreatn, the early Empire, some homosexual upl managed to get married the pany of iends.