Ancient Songs of Priapus learnedly critique dildos in Herodas’s Mimiambs 6 & 7 in impudently rejecting crude sexual objectification of men. … Read the post Priapus against dildos and men being sexually objectified
Mutilation of herms in ancient Athens exemplifies violence against men’s genitals. It’s echoed in enduring myths about Actaeon, Tiresias, and Adonis. … Read the post mutilation of herms in context of Actaeon, Tiresias & masturbation
From the Homeric Hymn to Hermes to Priapus in Horace’s Satires 1.8, the iambic tradition teaches that farting isn’t enough for relief from oppression. … Read the post Hermes and Priapus against oppression: farting isn’t enough
In Carmen 17, Catullus didn’t merely seek to thrust an impotent husband off Colonia’s bridge, but also to bridge a structural problem of the gender divide. … Read the post Catullus on bridging the gender divide for Colonia
Amid Iliadic war dance and violence against men, men amazed in dancing for pleasure. Overturning gender, men dancing pleasurably affirms men’s human being. … Read the post men dancing for war and pleasure in ancient Greek poetry