Classical languages vs. Modern Pornography

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Poll question: Classical languages vs. Modern Pornography

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1. I voted for Classical languages,

but money shots and tunnel shots never did a lot for me. My bias.

Meanwhile, some Wikipedians have put together a translation of Catullus 16.

[nuxvomica]

2. Whichever involves the most conjugation

:D

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3. A wise criterion, indeed.

By the way, this goes to the tune of the Mexican hat dance in my head:

amo
amas
amat
amamus
amatis
amant

[LostInAnomie]

4. Depends

Which one has the biggest rack?

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6. A wise criterion, indeed.

By the way, this goes to the tune of the Mexican hat dance in my head:

amo
amas
amat
amamus
amatis
amant

[petronius]

5. How about classical pornography?

At the soldier's orders, his companion bound Quartilla and myself together, mouth to mouth, breast to breast, and thigh to thigh; and not without a great deal of laughter. Then the catamite, also at the soldier's order, began to beslaver me all over with the fetid kisses of his stinking mouth, a treatment I could neither fly from, nor in any other way avoid. Finally, he ravished me, and worked his entire pleasure upon me. In the meantime, the satyrion which I had drunk only a little while before spurred every nerve to lust and I began to gore Quartilla impetuously, and she, burning with the same passion, reciprocated in the game. The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. While this was going on, Pannychis, unaccustomed at her tender years to the pastime of Venus, raised an outcry and attracted the attention of the soldier, by this unexpected howl of consternation, for this slip of a girl was being ravished, and Giton the victor, had won a not bloodless victory.

- Petronius

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7. "Catamites" is such a good word.

Thanks for the Petronius. That's almost as good as Ezekiel.

[idgiehkt]

11. I thought catamite was the charge of a pederast

a pederast is s a pedophile. So catamite might not be such a good word after all.

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12. It might not be a good thing to be

but it's a good word.

[mitchum]

14. And "gunsel" is Hobo lingo for catamite...

Dashiell Hammett convinced his publisher that "gunsel" was akin to gangster, hoodlum, etc...and they bought it.
Somewhere Hammett must still be laughing about that one.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. Hansel & Gunsel, by Engelbert Humperdinck???

:rofl:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. there are lots of good words like that, like "libertine" and "Voluptuary".

:evilgrin:

[chknltl]

8. Yeah...what he said.

[Shell Beau]

9. I am just gonna go out on a limb here and say classical language!

:shrug:

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10. Circle gets the square!

[Shell Beau]

13. Tic tac dough?

:P

[Crabby Appleton]

15. A picture is worth a thousand words

[TheBaldyMan]

16. other ... Classical pornography

[bettyellen]

17. both at the same time

Doh!

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18. Oh, the road less traveled.

Good thinkin'.

[bridgit]

19. Modern Pornography...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. classical languages

My Latin II teacher used to try to tempt kids to take Latin III by saying, "You'll get to read Catullus!! And more Ovid!!"

I knew Ovid wrote a sex manual, the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love). But we didn't read that in high school. We got boring stuff like "Omnia gallia divisa est in tres partes."