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To: jbe who wrote (5861)	9/28/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

<<Considering that you too have been compared to Caligula>> Considering that I don't have NEARLY that level of debauchery resources available to me, I regard that as GROSSLY unfair. <gg> What's the point of becoming the devil incarnate if you don't do it up really right? That's what I want to know. Doug

To: jbe who wrote (5861)	9/28/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

Thanks for the link. But, well, most disappointing on the debauchery front. Clearly that piece was written before the precedent and influence of the Starr report had been felt. <gg> I mean, there's this niggling little reference to Caligula's "immoral sexual debauchery". WELL. I can tell you, it was no mean feat in imperial Rome for an aristocrat to merit THAT description. But while Starr can drip with suggestion and innuendo, and that pornographically perfect amount of partial detail that sets the imagination racing, concerning a cigar....all we get in that dry piece is a stony phrase or two. In imperial Rome semi forced, and certainly induced, intercourse and all manner of erotic pleasure with numerous barely teenage female slaves was considered, well, perfectly normal. What else were they for? And with young male ones as well, so long as the aristocrat was the active partner. And so on. Clearly the authors need to re-do their historic piece in the wake of the Referral. I think in fact that from now on we are going to have to describe all serious works discussing aspects of personal life according to which set of standards for serious and mainstream discourse they fall within. Pre-Referral. Or Post-Referral. Don't you think? Doug