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After a little more than a 1000 years we've almost reverted to the sexual freedom of the Roman Empire. Sex work and decorating your living room with well endowed gods of fertility is still frowned upon in most of the world.

In fact, in some countries gore is more acceptable than female breasts.

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The sexual freedom of the Romans of the Roman Empire did not exist in the Romans that BUILT that Roman empire. They were, although the same blood, different peoples. Just as the founders of our nations and we today are different peoples. The same pretty much with every Empire that has come and gone including the Greeks.

> The sexual freedom of the Romans of the Roman Empire did not exist in the Romans that BUILT that Roman empire. They were, although the same blood, different peoples.

Not exactly the same blood; the Empire included a lot of territory outside Italy. Imperial Rome itself received a lot of population from foreign territories (it was an important place!), especially the East where most of the population was.

The rural Italians near Rome were more or less the same during the Empire as they were during the building process.

> In fact, in some countries gore is more acceptable than female breasts.

That's not because one is more acceptable than the other, but because sex is seen as a private thing and war as a public thing.

So you can show gore in your living room (public matters), but not breasts (save those for your private rooms).

Provided you consider breasts to be a strictly sexual thing.

Provided you consider that quarrels & wars could not be a strictly private matter.

Provided you consider that sex could not be a very public thing.

Comes down to choices, and culture.

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