LECHERS

In later life, the Roman emperor Augustus was a womanizer, and as an elderly man he is said to have still harboured a passion for deflowering girls — who were collected for him from every quarter, even by his wife!

The Roman emperor Caligula used to invite a selection of married women to dinner with their husbands; he would slowly and carefully examine each in turn; then, whenever he felt so inclined, he would send for whoever pleased him best, and leave the banquet in her company. Later he would return, showing obvious signs of what he had been doing, and openly discuss his bedfellow in detail, dwelling on her good and bad physical points, and criticizing her sexual performance.

The Roman emperor Domitian was extremely lustful, calling his sexual activities ‘bed-wrestling’, like a sport. He preferred to depilate his concubines himself and would go swimming with the commonest of prostitutes.