Go to page. The issue of sexual excesses in ancient Rome has undoubtedly become a legendary one. We have reliable sources about sexual practices of the third wife of Emperor Claudius , Valeria Messalina.
This fun-loving nymphomaniac has undoubtedly put Roman public opinion on its feet. Other animals have had enough of having sex at one point β people never. Ziegler-Brodnicka, Warszawa , s. This is not the only disgraceful achievement of the empress, for, as a Roman satyr poet Juvenal says, Messalina escaped the imperial palace at night in order to be able to freely indulge in the pleasures of the flesh in the Roman lupanar. Listen to what Claudius had to endure.
When his wife saw him fall asleep β this noble whore was so shameless that she preferred an ordinary carpet to a bed in an imperial palace β with only a companion serving, she was leaving her home with a cap on her head. Hiding her black hair under a blonde wig, she entered a burgher room, smelling of still used, warm duvets, and occupied a room reserved for her; there, under the name of Lycisca, she gave herself with bare breasts and gold-painted nipples and showed her belly, which once carried you, a noble Britannicus.
She accepted the insiders tenderly and demanded payment from everyone. And when the owner of the lupanar sent the girls home, she left sad, after the last cell had been closed, and in her vulva the desire was still burning. She returned tired of men, but still not satisfied, with dirty cheeks, dug in with lamp soot, and carried the smell of brothel into caesarean pillows 2.
Scandalous behaviour has undoubtedly left a deep mark on Messalina. The emperor was not his direct initiator.
