In it, Livy describes how Marcus Publicius Malleolus was sewn into a sack and thrown out to sea in 101 BC for killing his mother. The general consensus is poena cullei first appeared in Titus Livy’s History of Rome. The criminal was sewn up in a basic leather sack-and drowned, with death being the ultimate goal. The Romans also ushered in the use of the poena cullei, meaning Penalty of the Sack. It was easy for anyone to accuse a man of breaking rank or willingly giving in to penetration by a man of lesser status. These rules, coupled with true love between men, really muddied up the waters. If the soldier willingly allowed the common citizen to penetrate him, he would be publicly disemboweled. If a common citizen decided to penetrate an unwilling soldier, the punishment was public castration. A general could make a move on a lieutenant or a common citizen, and soldiers could go after common citizens.Ĭlimbing up the social ladder was forbidden. For example, the emperor would get it on with anyone he wanted. In ancient Rome, the higher your status, the more people you were allowed to bone without consequence. Handfuls of barley were stuffed into her, and she was sewn back up-only to be given to wild hogs. After the young woman was no longer a virgin, she was publicly stripped, and her belly was sliced open, spilling her innards out. Saint Gregory described a heinous torture that was performed on young women by the people of Heliopolis while under Roman rule:Īny virgin who was to undergo this torture was first given to the gladiators. Death, while welcomed, came slowly for the victim of this torture. Maggots would crawl all over the accused, and vultures would peck at the animal’s decaying flesh. It would begin to decompose-with the living victim inside being cooked by the heat. The belly was stitched closed, leaving only the accused’s head outside, preventing suffocation but prolonging suffering. The accused was then stripped of clothing and stuffed into the animal’s belly. Take, for instance, a torture that was described by both Apuleius ( The Golden Ass) and Lucian ( Lucius, or the Ass):Ī donkey would be killed, its belly sliced open, and the entrails removed. If you’re looking for cruel and unusual forms of torture, you don’t have to look any further than ancient Rome. There were always loopholes in the laws of ancient Rome, and the elite rulers exploited each and every one of them.
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That didn’t stop Rome’s elite from torturing the free men and women of their country, though. In fact, it was highly recommended that any free man accused of a crime would have his slaves tortured in his place, often to the death, so that a verdict could be reached. It’s wonderful how all our gay activists over the years have fought the good fight and won so much for all of us and future generations of gays.In ancient Rome, the general rule was that slaves could be freely tortured. I knew a guy who once told me that he only could feel alive in summer on fire Islan, the rest of the year in upstate New York where he was a teacher, he had no social life, no outwardly gay experiences or appearances. So as you smugly criticize these guys in the film, I urge other viewers to try to place yourselves in their shoes, and imagine what gay life was in 1976. mere suspicion of being gay, or even unmarried beyond a certain undefined age, could be grounds for loosing government jobs, and of course, no security clearances for gays.
These Fire Island frolicers were all born during the gay bashing and gay witch hunts of the lavender scare, under Sen Joe McCarthy and NY asshole closet case lawyer Roy Cohen. The military was weeding out gays left and right. Gay marriage was not even on the radar screen yet. If a pair did become known in the non-gay world, your partner was known as your “friend” or your “roommate”. It was the era of “couples” always having separate apartments, not talking about the other at work or school, or among straight friends. Society didn’t like it, families raised eyebrows. In those days, many guys wee gay on weekends, straight acting Monday through Friday. Society was very anti-gay, the gay community had lots of internalized homophobia, and whenever and wherever pockets of freedom existed, of course there were excesses that cover compensated for what most of their lives were previously, and for the majority, off of Fire Island. They did not get to have boy friends in junior high (now called middle school), high school, any many even in college. Aren’t you prissy and sanctimonious? In 1976, most visitors to Fire Island had never known the freedom and self-acceptance of living “openly gay”, “Out”, in their daily lives wherever they originally came from.