ancient sex life

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/library-procopius/secrethistory-17.htm

but start at the beginning:
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/library-procopius/secrethistory-1.htm

and then this:
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/chap16.htm

We in the West may also contemplate the oncoming of a millennium of
barbarism under the new myth with the same despair and horror, for the
Christian Church is patently as incapable of revising its own dogmas in
the light of new knowledge and new needs as were the Roman authorities
The inertia of tradition is too great. Nor should we benefit if we could
exchange the tyrannies of modern dialectical materialism for those of
mediaeval ecclesiasticism. Unfortunately, the constructive solution of
restoring a charitic religion, based not on dogma but on experience, and
the redesigning of the culture in harmony with such a religion, seems
even further beyond our powers. We seem unable to escape from the
tyranny of our obsessive demands, to serve which we have created a mode
of life wherein the direct satisfaction of instinctual needs has become
increasingly difficult. Like a river flowing through an alluvial plain,
we continue to follow the course which, aeons ago, the water once carved
out - only, with the passage of the years, the original inequalities of
the channel become exaggerated, the course more and more elaborately
curved, the rate of movement slower and slower. The river does not
change: it only becomes more and more characteristically itself. In the
same way, we in the West seem incapable of finding new modes for the
expression of our fundamental needs to love and hate, to build and
destroy; we can only express them in a manner which is ever more
characteristic of what we have always done. We are ruled by the dead.

but start at the beginning:
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/index.htm

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