Great post by my friend, Clodia Metelli. In book 3 of the Dominus series (title TBD), we’ll explore the BDSM aspects of Gaius and Lucius’s relationship while they were both young students in Athens. It might surprise you. 😀
There is an exciting new group on Goodreads especially devoted to m/m fiction in ancient Greece and Rome – The House of Dionysus.
Scene from the Tomb of the Whipping, in the Necropolis of Monterozzi, near Tarquinia in Italy, dated around 490 BCE. The scene shows two men flagellating a woman in a sexual context. Throughout the tomb are frescoes of sexual activity, musicians and dancers. The flogging might be simply an erotic game, or a ritual act similar to that seen in the Pompeian villa of the mysteries, or for all we know it could be the non-consensual abuse of a slave woman or prostitute.
A few days ago, one of my fellow mods Kayla, opened a topic asking me why my latest short story, The Education of Gaius had such a strong ‘BDSM’ theme. Did we actually know anything about such practices in ancient Rome?
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