ancient-history

The Secret Male Sex Workers of Ancient Rome

Etched onto the walls of a seriously old brothel is definitive proof that male sex workers lived, worked and fucked — often queerly — before a conservative emperor wiped them out

In Ancient Times, We Were All Mullet-Sporting Hipsters

The infamous haircut is more ancient than Greece

I Wore 2,700-Year-Old Men’s Face Cream for a Week

And my skin is the shiniest it’s ever been

Why the Ancient Egyptians (Maybe) Masturbated Into the Nile

Some historians believe the ancient Egyptians held a whole festival about jerking off into their most famous body of water, and maybe we should do the same