12/15/2023 7:00:59 PM:     Deleted Unread:  WTF?  Why are you here if you are not even going to read a message?  Who knows, you may have read something interesting or adventageous.  

12/1/2023 10:41:09 AM: I guess it needs to be said that I am now able to respond to messages on here.  When I first set up the account there was an ongoing problem in that regard but it has since been fixed.  Since changing text in the main profile triggers a review process that can take quite awhile I am reluctant to change things at this point.  Thanks   The following is from a book about Gaius Valarius Catulius, a Roman poet of 80 to 50BCE.  The book is by Jilia Gaisser.    'Masculinity manifested itself in carriage, speech, actions, and conduct, but above all in the sexual act, its most basic demonstration of control. The dominance belonged to the one who penetrated another with his penis whether he did so vaginally, anally, or orally (respectively, futuere, pedicare, irrumare) and the one penetrated, whether female or male, was considered submissive and lesser in power and status. The essential point was not the sex of the person with whom a man perfarmed a sexual act, but whether or not he was the penetrator. The ability to penetrate another was a demonstration of masculinity and power. Submitting to penetration (or being forced to submit) was an act of softness (mollitia), and an acknowledgment of inferiority. For a male slave it was just another aspect of his servitude, for an adult male citizen it was humiliating and shameful.'   The highlighting is mine.