The Erotic Art of Pompeii

Too timid of a presentation

Must we CENSOR ancient works of art?!

It makes one wonder... what WOULD have been offensive to the Romans?

This is too much information, young man! I'm OUTRAGED!!

Sex sells. Particularly in ancient Rome.

The most interesting pictures are not here but will google Lupenari

not my kind of erotic, more grotesque

LMAO I wonder what people would say if you hung wind up chimes like that out side. My mom would not let me hang them outside my window.

Do you know my friend, Biggus Dickus?

Must have been nice growing up in a society where a member was seen as something positive, not as a weapon against women.

Beautiful!

Have these erotica been curated into LLMs like GPT40 and Claude?

Endless fascination with the male organ😂😂😂

The "Secret Room" sounds uncomfortably like the nazi "Museum of Degenerate Art"...

Excellent. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us!

When we visited Pompeii in 2018 we had to catch a bullet train back to Rome and didn't have time to go into Naples and see this museum, but it was on my list. Thanks a lot for this video!

Ha ha ha shocked by the Romans? Don´t look what the Greeks did ;-) Have to always smirk when modern values are put onto ancient artefacts.

Some of them knew how to manage human sexuality. These days the orgiastic resets have turned into socio- economic insanity where a few fuck the whole world.

Those chimes all look different, but in the wind they all just go dong-dong-dong.

Cause to reflect on how "socially constructed" our lives are and how what is considered normal versus obscene is highly subjective.

"Erotic Art of Pompei," or how to give a Christian Nationalist a stroke.

Wow those ancient people were something else, eh! What a video! Okay, I guess I'll head back and rewatch all seasons of Game of Thrones for some clean modern entertainment...

For all the raving fun of the Bacchic rites, during the Roman Republic they became so violent, unhinged and over the top that the Roman Senate had most of the shrines destroyed and thousands of participants killed or suppressed. The rites were limited in numbers of participants under strict control and to daylight hours in 186 BCE. The decree is miraculously still extant: Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalalibus. Or see Livy's History of Rome, Book 39.8-9.

However as an artistic motif and in private circumstances it fortunately doesn't seem to have dampened down much the irrepressible spirit and energy of the god.

The only other mystery cult I am aware of to have similar prohibitions weighed on it, albeit for very brief periods of time despite amplified Hollywood victimization, was early Christianity for its intransigent obstinacy to accepted religious customs of the day.

One can only wonder what the one's HOA would say about hanging a tintinnabulum on the front porch today.

there are indeed phallic monuments and symbols associated with the Yoruba deity Legba that bear some resemblance to the Greco-Roman Herms.

In Yoruba tradition, Legba is often represented by a wooden post or pillar with a carved phallus. These phallic monuments, known as Eshu-Elegba, were erected at the crossroads and other important liminal spaces. They were seen as embodiments of Legba's role as the "opener of the way" and his power to facilitate communication and transactions between the physical and spiritual realms.

Similarly, the Herms in ancient Greece were stone or wooden pillars with a carved head of Hermes on top and a phallus protruding from the base. These were placed at crossroads, entrances to buildings, and other transitional spaces, serving as markers, boundary stones, and symbols of Hermes' protective and generative powers.

The presence of these phallic monuments in both Yoruba and Greco-Roman cultures suggests some fascinating parallels in the conceptualization and representation of trickster deities associated with liminality, thresholds, and the mediation between the divine and human worlds.

While the specific origins and meanings of these symbols may differ somewhat between the two traditions, the overall symbolic resonance is quite striking. It's an intriguing area of comparative mythology that continues to be explored by scholars studying the cultural exchanges and cross-pollination between ancient African and Mediterranean civilizations.

I see now where the phrase 'with all bells and whistles' comes from.

These are our ancestors, the people of the world have changed little.

I cant believe penetration motifs have been censored. Ive had the good fortune to visit Pompeii, almost all of the really explicit stuff was destroyed by victorian Christians and do gooders. The few pieces of really sensual art will never be exhibited publicly.
"People might get aroused"
😆😂🤣 what a joke!

Temembering the NSFW tapestries and mosaics of HotD S1 Ep1-5...

It just shows how stupidly prude we all became (on the outside)

When you consider the different perceptions and beliefs of the time, nothing shown is grossly inappropriate. Context and period are everything. Some beautiful art there.

Two men engaged in a wrestling match. That’s all it is in spite of what some would like you to believe. Nothing more, nothing less.

"segreto" not "segretto".

Fay-lus? 🤔

2024 the World could be on the edge of World War and this "Piece" had to be "Censored"! Galling!

What do you expect from idol worshipping pagans..

Religion needs to inculcate the idea that something is ‘sinful’ which requires ‘forgiveness’ in order to stay in business. Forget religion, treat other people as you’d wish to be treated, what else do you need?

It is because of these ancient erotic images that the Anglo-Saxons have made up the wrong ideas about Italians, they think that we Italians are still sexually very free today, while they, the Anglo-Saxons, the North Europeans, believe they are much cleaner, more morigerate, puritans than us, the statistics on sexual diseases show a completely different reality, we Italians are much cleaner and more chaste than English, Americans, etc. These misconceptions arose from the fact that in the pagan era, paintings, mosaics, etc. were made in Italy.

They obviously did not have the same taboos as today. The question is when did it change?

Thanks for sharing. Apparently, erotic art and literature can be found in many cultures and eras. Erotica stimulate common human needs and desires that seek satisfaction. A comparative study of erotic artifacts across cultures over time would be edifying and fascinating. Peace.

Just why this city was covered in ash.

Buncha preverts

Censored? Prudes!

Much of this erotica is housed in a secret room at the Vatican behind a mirrored wall. I don't think its open to the public. 😂

watching this safely in a secure dark room away from everyone else.

I want a door knob like this ! 😆