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for Roman Sex Goblet Gay Bar Opens in Cambodia |
| By Rex Wockner
International News Report Museum Pays $2.3 Million for Roman Sex Goblet
The British Museum has paid $2.9 million for a 1,900-year-old
silver Roman drinking goblet decorated with gay sex scenes, the
Daily Telegraph reported.
The director of the museum's Greek and Roman department, Dyfri Williams, said the five-inch-tall cup is the only known object of its kind. Similar sex scenes have been found on Roman glass and pottery but not on silverwork. Two pairs of lovers are depicted -- a bearded man making love to a pre-pubescent youth as another youth peers around a door, and two boys having sex. "They [the Romans] were clearly very interested in sex in a wide, uncomplicated manner but they had no term for homosexuals," Williams said. "They had different sexual hang-ups from us." Gay Bar Opens in Cambodia
The magazine said Cambodia "is unburdened by the Western gay/straight separation. ... Not getting married to someone of the opposite sex is considered bizarre, but homoerotic behaviour is totally acceptable," the report said. The bar's phone number is 011-855-15-974-743. |
