Tuesday 29 October 2024

Sex and Celebrity.

I have long known of the existence
of tear-bottles in antique society, 

but I have only recently discovered
that gladiator-sweat was widely
(and unsurprisingly) valued
as one a most powerful aphrodisiac.
(No mention has survived
of the rarer foreskin cheese.)

Could it have been collected in tiny bottles
for consumption by the super-rich ?
Or in handkerchieves ?
Or was it mixed with flour,
patted into raw mini-baps
for them to sniff
and lick and savour in erotic ease ?

Or was it sold (or even auctioned)
like modern wrestlers' jock-straps ?




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