My Brain, After Dark

NSFW blog for A Peek Inside My Brain

[cutesexyrobutts2]

[moderate-tiddy-goth-gf-deactiva]

Hiii! Hope everyone's having a good week!

I get the next four days off which is amazing, definitely can't wait to sleep in a bit and catch up on some netflix in bed 😅❤️.

Might even spend some time on here, who knows 😉❤️

[rhube]

My mate Dave delivers some important information about Roman sex coins on the Twitters. (Source)

[rhube]

I just wanted to let you all know that my appeal on the Sex Coins post was accepted.

There are still a great many entirely innocent posts that I can’t even appeal, but somewhere out there there’s a human who loves history who let this one go, and I’m grateful to them!

[sigaloenta]

Not to be That Person but almost every detail of the explanations offered in the twitter thread screenshotted above is wrong:

1. Tiberius minted coins throughout his reign. This is not hard to confirm and it’s absolutely bizarre that anyone would say otherwise. He did oversee a major credit crisis in 33 CE during which there was a coin shortage because everyone was trying to call their debts in, plus a law had been passed requiring lenders to invest in land, which was putting money in the treasuring but out of circulation. Incidentally, Tiberius resolved this by releasing more coinage in the form cash distributions and by offering short term no-interest treasury loans.

2. Augustus did not try to ban sex work* by making it illegal to use coins with his face on them in brothels. There are anecdotes set in the reign of Tiberius onward about people being charged with treason for taking coins with a deified emperor’s face into a latrine or a brothel; these stories fall into two categories: 1) the villain is a professional accuser who tries to get someone charged with blasphemy or treason; the Good Emperor or magistrate squashes it on the grounds that that’s stupid. 2) The primary villain is the emperor who allows these kinds of frivolous treason charges because he thinks he’s a god. Both kinds of anecdotes are closer to urban legends than historical documentation. They tell us something about the everyday experience of life in Imperial Rome in much the same way that story about the teens hooking up in a cornfield who are fused together by a lightning bolt tells us about the actual experience of pre-marital sex in the American midwest in the latter half of the 20th century.

tl;dr: it was’t illegal to bring a coin featuring the emperor into a brothel. It’s conceivable that if someone was accusing you before the governor, they might try to tack on a charge of treason/blasphemy by accusing you of doing something bad to a coin with the imperial image on it, mostly as character assassination to try to prejudice the governor against you. It probably wouldn’t work, and definitely wouldn’t set a precedent forbidding people to pay for sex with regular coins.

*(The Julian Laws on Adultery had additional penalties for elite women who engaged in sex work and for elite men who married sex workers. This was not about suppressing sex work, which was largely done by enslaved and formerly enslaved people, and already carried legal and social stigma. On the contrary, because the Augustan legislation increased the penalties for adultery and non-marital sex between respectable (and especially upper-class) citizens but specifically exempted sex workers, there are stories about elite women registering themselves as prostitutes to avoid charges. Again: anecdote =/= reality in a one-to-one way.). 

3. Re the theory of “maybe they were given to soldiers to pay for sex depending on what act they wanted because they wouldn’t know Latin so they had to just point !” I genuinely wonder whether people who espouse this theory have ever attempted to communicate a simple idea or transact a basic exchange in a language they don’t know, or ever had such an interaction with someone who didn’t speak the dominant language of their own area. Or ever read about literally any example of an occupying army in an occupied country. (American soldiers in Vietnam were not given sex tokens. They also knew a lot less Vietnamese than your average soldier in the Roman auxiliaries knew Latin- because Latin is the language that commands and documentation and bureaucracy happened in!) It’s also noteworthy that most of these tokens are not heavily worn; they weren’t highly circulating.

4. The one thing that is true is that it’s not know exactly “what they were for”. Romans put sex scenes on everything from cheap clay oil lamps to fancy silver cups, so the decoration isn’t especially indicative of anything, but the numbers suggest that maybe they were game markers (cf. playing cards with sexy ladies on the backs). Another very plausible idea is that they were tokens tossed into the crowd at arena games to be exchanged for prizes (a common kind of  imperial munificence). If you catch a silver token with a III on it you can go to the aedile afterwards and exchange it for a pair of piglets, that sort of thing.

[nsfwnereshai]

Oldest collectable coin series.

[stendra]

Kinktober day twelve: “Tentacles” Done for nadias-tales-of-sex-and-incest, thanks a lot! I wish I had more time on this one ;) One slot left if you are interested here. Patreon

[kitten-not-angel]

🖤

[luminyu-art]

Discordia  Oblivion Queen skin)  Commission by  Frosty Thank you for commissionning me Frosty ! Full pack for free on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/posts/discordia-queen-17074995

[kitten-not-angel]

🖤

[cikgusex]

Zaheera

[kitten-not-angel]

🖤

[wearepaladin]

Rashimira, Paladin of Torm by Barret Frymire

[crepax58-deactivated20150210]

[kitten-not-angel]

🖤

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[corvigay-clutter]

girl what are you talking about this rips

[hummingyogurt]

That King Ghidorah alone costs 230 bucks, in how far is that ugly lamp supposed to compete?

Hobby shaming culture is just ridiculous 

[red-revival]

Also like-

“Insists on having a say in decor”???

Buddy you share the house fucking obviously he gets a say in how it looks

[sighinastorm]

I always get nervous when a post crosses my dash and the source sucks.  So relieved everyone was ripping the guts out of it.

[nsfwnereshai]

YOU moved in with HIM. Its his house. You fucking bet he gets a say.

[commanderfreddy]

as a duel hellsite citizen i feel it is important to bring news from twitter: namely that on this, the exact same day that tumblr starts trialing paywalls, twitter is trialing dislikes

[evtrained]

Holy shit, it is just Bad Idea Wednesday today

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Happy Bad Idea Wednesday everybody

[nsfwnereshai]

No, that's a fucking great idea!!

[abysmal0]

Wanna go for a swim? Want the naughtier bits? Check out more!   :DISCORD: :NEWGROUNDS: :TWITTER: :PATREON: :REDBUBBLE:

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

I need to research why pokemon cards are so expensive. Computer! Show me "pokemon inflation"

[crtter]

[nsfwnereshai]

@crymsonfetish

[abysmal0]

These queens from Fantasia deserved so much better, just saying.

Want the naughtier bits? Check out more!   :DISCORD: :NEWGROUNDS: :TWITTER: :PATREON: :REDBUBBLE:

[corhore]

Tali. The Ass. 

Liara. The Tits. 

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. 

[badjokesbyjeff]

I threw my wife a surprise bukake party

Everyone came. You should have seen her face.

[mzcamilamontoya]

🐰💗

Bouncy bunny 🎶

[hearted-face-deactivated2024071]

By @larotica

[kitten-not-angel]

🖤