{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\u201cMessalina\u201d by Eug\u00e8ne Cyrille Brunet (1884)\u00a0\n can we just look at this masterpiece?? it\u2019s based on the myth that Messalina...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169807906523/", "html": "

femmenietzsche:

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incakolaemoji:

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\u201cMessalina\u201d by Eug\u00e8ne Cyrille Brunet (1884)\u00a0

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can we just look at this masterpiece?? it\u2019s based on the myth that Messalina (Roman Empress, Claudius\u2019 consort) won a competition against a sex worker that consisted on which woman could take more men. Needless to say Messalina won, taking 25 men in 24 hours, and the sculpture depicts the exhaustion after it.

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And I say myth because even though some people talk about it as a fact, it\u2019s probably a smear tactic.

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Another angle:

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we say it wasn\u2019t until the Victorians that we surpassed the Romans but actually the Romans invented running trains

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