Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)
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Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)
Erotic literature; Sex customs -- Greece; Sex customs -- Rome
“My cousin, Mancia, has married a Neapolitan of the name of Marino.
Marino is burning all over with debauchery. The libertine looks for
the woman in Mancia even above the breasts; he wants her mouth, as
though the vulva of the young wife had taken refuge there, or as if
the mouth had made a bargain with the vulva to participate in the
games of Venus. I blamed her for allowing so unnatural an act. “What
would you have?” she said. “Marino’s instrument occupies my mouth,
so I cannot complain. We please our husbands only by reason of being
women. Never mind where she is taken, if a woman only proves that
she is a woman, she will please.”” (Dial. VII.)
So too Alfonso tries to engage Eleanor herself in the same fashion:
“Look you! Ottavia”, added Eleanor, “how passionately loving Alfonso
is. Some days ago, after having several times plied his javelin in
the legitimate way, he presented it to my mouth. “Your catapult, my
Alfonso”, said I, “is not made for breaching this door; you are mad,
and you want to make me the same.” “No! I would fain have you mad,
not myself; for that you love me, I owe to your madness, not to any
merits of my own. If I get delirious, I may forget the respect which
I owe you, and I would rather die than cease to live for you alone.”
These words softened my heart, and decided me to assist him in that
game. I seized his inflamed dart with a good heart between my lips.
But that was all, his member returned voluntarily to the place it
had left, and finished its exploits, which it had impudently begun
above, properly in the region of the middle.” (Dial. VII.)
Gonzalvo of Cordova was another amateur of this mode. Aloysia Sigaea:
“Gonzalvo of Cordova, a celebrated general, is said to have taken
very much to this kind of voluptuousness in his old age.” (Dial.
VII.)
The prurient ingenuity of Tiberius invented a new species of
_fellation_.
“His turpitude went still farther, to such infamous excesses, that
it is as difficult to relate them as to listen to them; they are
scarcely credible. He caused little children, of the tenderest age
to be taught to play between his legs, while he was swimming in his
bath, calling them his little fishes, to touch him lightly with
tongue and teeth, and like babies of some little strength and
growth, though not yet weaned, to suck his privates as they would
their mother’s breast. His age and his inclination predisposed him
for this sort of pleasure before all others.” (Suetonius,
_Tiberius_, ch. 44).
A representation of this ingenious libertine while tickled by what he
called his little fishes, is to be seen on plate XVIII. of the
_Monuments de la vie privée des douze Césars_.
Men advanced in age, whose member will no longer obey their will, are
more inclined to irrumate than others. To this circumstance the passage
in Martial, IV., 50, refers:
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