I find the results of this month's poll passing strange so far.
The poll question, a follow of last iteration's "What profession would you want to have in Ancient Rome", is this time "What profession in Ancient Rome would you like your wife to have?"
One has replied Priestess- a good choice, in my opinion. Priestesses were valued, though not many. In fact, they were pretty much limited to Bone Dea and a few other cults. But they were respected.
Same for poets.
Housewives were also a good chunk of the society. One did not need to be rich or noble to run a household as if the Goddess Come to Earth.Materfamilias ran the house, no matter what paterfamilias thought or tried.
One has wanted his wife to be a prostitute. Okay. Lots of good sex there I imagine.
But, for the life of the gods, can someone explain why the leading choice for an answer is "Vestal Virgin"? Have we evolved so far that we no longer like sex? Or is it that we are so lazy that we could do without for forty years until they retire- earning that handsome bonus too, by the way, and thereafter we do not have to worry about children taking over our computers and tablets to make them their own?
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Somewhere over the EXCO Rainbow
Master Skald, Order of the Silver Quill, Guild of the Skalds
Champion of the Sepia Joust- Joust I, II, IV, VI, VII, VIII
The poll question, a follow of last iteration's "What profession would you want to have in Ancient Rome", is this time "What profession in Ancient Rome would you like your wife to have?"
One has replied Priestess- a good choice, in my opinion. Priestesses were valued, though not many. In fact, they were pretty much limited to Bone Dea and a few other cults. But they were respected.
Same for poets.
Housewives were also a good chunk of the society. One did not need to be rich or noble to run a household as if the Goddess Come to Earth.
One has wanted his wife to be a prostitute. Okay. Lots of good sex there I imagine.
But, for the life of the gods, can someone explain why the leading choice for an answer is "Vestal Virgin"? Have we evolved so far that we no longer like sex? Or is it that we are so lazy that we could do without for forty years until they retire- earning that handsome bonus too, by the way, and thereafter we do not have to worry about children taking over our computers and tablets to make them their own?
|||||||||||||||| A transplanted Viking, born a millennium too late. |||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||| Too many Awards to list in Signature, sorry lords...|||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||| Listed on my page for your convenience and envy.|||||||||||||||||
Somewhere over the EXCO Rainbow
Master Skald, Order of the Silver Quill, Guild of the Skalds
Champion of the Sepia Joust- Joust I, II, IV, VI, VII, VIII