However, Caesar was mocked by many Romans because he was reputed to be the catcher, not the pitcher, which Romans thought was unmanly. Caesar was also known for having sex with men, which the Romans took a laissez-faire attitude toward.
He spent vast sums buying attractive slaves for sexual purposes on the one hand and on the other, had slept with both the wives of fellow triumvirate members Pompey and Crassus. Yet and still, he was famous for his sexual appetites. This practice was called irrumatio and Romans didn’t consider it gay since they were the ones doing the penetrating.Ĭompared to some of the deviant Roman emperors that followed, Julius Caesar almost seems tame. After the teeth were smashed out of the enemy soldier’s mouth, the Roman soldiers then had sex with the toothless mouth as a way to humiliate their foes. A dentifrangibus is another word for tooth smasher. After being captured, an enemy soldier might experience the horror of having a dentifrangibus used on them. What wasn’t as commonplace was another Roman practice. To take them on meant death, subjugation, and the rape of your women, which was commonplace in those days. For centuries, the Romans had the best military of the ancient world.
