Brothel of Gelded Boys by "Edgeman"

[C van D (imported)]

I stumbled on this by accident. It impressed me, and deserves to be more widely read than it (seemingly) has been, since it was posted in 2003.

Readers with a classical background will recognise Juvenal, Satire VI, where the poet describes the practice, prevalent among sex-starved Roman women, of castrating favourite slaves as bed-partners. However, from Juvenal's description, these were youths rather than boys, who were already well-hung and could sustain strong erections after their testicles had been removed. There are hints that black youths were especially prized because they had bigger penises.

Juvenal also draws a distinction between these, and the more usual market for boy-eunuchs:

"Slave-dealers' boys are different, patheticaly weak; ashamed of their empty bag and their lost little chick-peas". In other words, pre-pubescent boys who couldn't "do it". The little boys preferred by one of the women's husbands would certainly have been boy-eunuchs.

Just a final comment: Edgeman't choice of names for the women makes them sound more like freedwomen than the wives of senators: Aspasia and Clio are both Greek not Roman. Also, Roman women were not as confined by the street door as their Greek counterparts.

C van D

[estragen (imported)]

I stumbled on this by accident. It impressed me, and deserves to be more widely read than it (seemingly) has been, since it was posted in 2003.

Readers with a classical background will recognise Juvenal, Satire VI, where the poet describes the practice, prevalent among sex-starved Roman women, of castrating favourite slaves as bed-partners. However, from Juvenal's description, these were youths rather than boys, who were already well-hung and could sustain strong erections after their testicles had been removed. There are hints that black youths were especially prized because they had bigger penises.

Juvenal also draws a distinction between these, and the more usual market for boy-eunuchs:

"Slave-dealers' boys are different, patheticaly weak; ashamed of their empty bag and their lost little chick-peas". In other words, pre-pubescent boys who couldn't "do it". The little boys preferred by one of the women's husbands would certainly have been boy-eunuchs.

Just a final comment: Edgeman't choice of names for the women makes them sound more like freedwomen than the wives of senators: Aspasia and Clio are both Greek not Roman. Also, Roman women were not as confined by the street door as their Greek counterparts.

C van D

A link would have been nice, would add one if I had the computer know how.

[tjstill (imported)]

http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/B/ea_74534brothel_.htm

Good story, there a two other parts. Just go to the story page on this site and check under achieve alphabetical index Letter B and you will find the other sections to read.

[C van D (imported)]

http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/B/ea_74534brothel_.htm

Good story, there a two other parts. Just go to the story page on this site and check under achieve alphabetical index Letter B and you will find the other sections to read.

Replying to T J Still, I did, in fact, read all three before reviewing the piece as a whole. C van D

[kristoff]

Replying to T J Still, I did, in fact, read all three before reviewing the piece as a whole. C van D

Certainly, he was making reference so that others did not miss them....