If I am mixing up stuff on the timeline, please correct me…
But didn’t greek older men fuck younger men? Usually teacher, student thing… If I remember correctly… But those athletes probably had a teacher…
So these Athletes weren’t just nude, they probably had gay sex.
Roman yes. Greek I don’t know.
The gay sex they did back then is what we would call rape today. It usually was pederasty. The young men was often a teen.
I am sorry if I made it sound differently. I intended to hint at that in regards of the “trans people are groomer” folks… I am sorry if I failed.
I’m sure they oiled up each other.
For anybody wanting to know more about the history behind this from /r/askhistorians’ Iphicartes:
If I recall correctly, they also would wash themselves with perfume made of the sweat of the gladiators, and something with urin.
Stop you’re making me hungry
Well, it’s all Greek to me.
That athlete in the background just getting hit in the balls with a long stick - what sport is that?
He’s not part of the Olympics. That’s just what he’s into
Greeks didn’t kink shame this sort of thing.
That’s fencing right? They have protective equipment now.
Where did you grow up where you didn’t play stickballs?
Is this the same game as ballsticks?
There’s a scene from Doctor Who that I adore, where Bill, the Doctor’s first openly lesbian companion is in a cave with some Ancient Romans, and when she thinks she so futurey and gonna blow their minds by telling them she is only interested in girls, they laugh in confusion and basically say they think her prudishness of only being sexual with women, as they have no such hang ups and go where their sexuality inspires them to go based on their affection for the person, is adorably quaint and smallminded.
IMHO we’re the backwards ones with all of our hangups, modesty, and need to declare/define the walls we’ve made. I’ve never stopped cringing since I read about humans that knew better than to wall off and hyper-scrutinize their sexuality, a massive part of who we all are whether we’ve been successfully taught to be ashamed of it and ourselves as current culture demands or not.
Imagine chasing bliss in plastic shit consumerism while denying and being encouraged to be ashamed of your built in capacity for it. 2 steps forward, 2,000 steps back.
Hey guys is it gay to be nude?
It is if you’re in a room full of other naked dudes…
So finns all be gay?
This is the person I think, is asking this kind of question.
Such was the style at the time.
I am patiently waiting for the return of pankration
The classy man’s mud wrestling!
Finally a return to traditional values!
When men were men, girls were girls, and they both raped anyone younger than them to demonstrate their prowess and strength.
Ah yes, traditional values where citizens* can be classified as Penetrator or Penetrated
*qualifications apply
And priests could show little boys the light of religion is found through their butthole!
…wait, that still happens…
Ah well. Some things never change I guess.
And those aren’t even the contestants
Imagine the ratings!
Someone go tell the TV networks this. And no one can complain because its traditional.
I’m not sure the world is ready.
It’s been nearly 25 years, and Keith Chegwin’s Naked Jungle is still seared into my retinas.
Nothing better when you’re wrestling your buddy nude and all greased up and you fall and their dick accidentally goes in your butthole but you wouldn’t be a very good buddy if you stopped.
Good luck getting through these shitlocks, buster
Fuck, thanks for that mental image
Gotta take
oneseveral for the homies. No homie left behind.Butt many in mine
Head twink inspector in the bottom left had a cool gig
Wtf is the guy in the foreground on the right doing? Kooks like either tying off to ride the white stallion or he’s on PCP and degloving himself
Real answer for anyone curious, he’s using one of these.
He’s warming up his dildo
It looks like he’s slapping himself with maybe some cattails; maybe to loosen up his muscles?
