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There is a wry little comment in Gibbon area he reflects that of the aboriginal fifteen Roman Emperors, “Claudius was the alone one whose aftertaste in adulation was absolutely correct.” Alike if we accept that Kinsey’s aggrandized “one in ten” accomplishment is accurate, we should alone apprehend that 1.3 of these men would be homosexual/bisexual in his inclinations. Two would be aural accustomed statistical deviation, three would be a little odd but conceivably explicable if we theorized that the Claudians were accustomed a macho homosexuality gene, but twelve of thirteen does assume a little improbable. Here I booty a attending at six of them.
Julius. If Julius Caesar had homosexual relations, it is about anticipation that they were politically motivated. He was accommodating to allow his political assemblage in adjustment to accretion authority and dignitas aural the Roman world. He was additionally accommodating to accept such favours from his inferiors as a way of accepting their political adherence and establishing his ascendancy over them. He is what we would alarm an “opportunistic homosexual.”
Tiberius. Tiberius, by all accounts, was a sex addict. In his case it’s not alike acceptable that these were aloof abusive rumours advance by his affliction enemies: we accept the incriminating affirmation of the mosaics in his alcazar at Capris. If you anytime go to a “sexaholics anonymous” affair you will bound ascertain that sex addiction generally crosses gender lines. It has annihilation to do with animal orientation, but rather with gluttonous the better accessible basin of animal ally and experiences.
Caligula. Caligula was acutely messed up. Half of his ancestors and their political allies were murdered beneath the administration of Tiberius, abundantly because the abode of Germanicus enjoyed anytime accretion political access as Tiberius’ acceptance waned. Caligula was clean-cut by Tiberius from a adolescent age at the above pleasure-palace in Capris. His animal action was aberrant and seems to accept included incest. Today, we would see Caligula as a agony victim, agnate to pedophiles whose pedophilia is acquired by their own animal abuse as children.Nero. Nero seems to accept been a somewhat chichi boy who was pushed into an ultra-masculine role in an ultra-masculine association by an ascendant mother. He’s the absolute average of a homosexual as presented aural homophobic literature: angry, smothered, frivolous, spoiled-rotten, effeminate, acutely egotistic and defective in self-control. If there is annihilation to the Freudian tropes, Nero is their poster-boy.
Elegabalus. I acknowledgment him because his animal exploits are not what brought absorption to him but rather his absurd displays of acute effeminacy. Although his female is broadly debated in bookish circles, there is a able altercation to be fabricated that Elegabalus was transgender.
Note that these are six absolutely altered personalities. They accept a amazing bulk in common: they allotment the aforementioned cultural background, they’re all obscenely wealthy, they’re all ambitious, four of them are accompanying by blood, and they were all leaders of the best able Empire in the age-old world. Yet alike still there’s a huge bulk of assortment in agreement of their animal behaviour, the affidavit for that behaviour, their acceptable animal orientation, their animal motivations and what it would beggarly to accredit to them as “homosexual” or alike “bisexual.”This is why I accept a huge botheration both with stereotypes that try to call all homosexuals application statistical averages, and with account narratives that try to adduce that there is a distinct compatible account for all homosexuality. The abnormality is aloof too assorted for any of those theories to be alike accidentally true. No amount how far you zoom your camera in, alike if you accept a ridiculously tight-angle you still end up with berserk aberrant sexualities.
Adapted from Animal Authenticity: More Reflections
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