I think they just romanticize Western antiquity which very much saw sex as a manifestation of power and control rather than an expression of an intimate connection.
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Honytawk@feddit.nl 15 hours agoHeh, so the ancient Greeks were on to something?
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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Also the Roman elites literally only had sex with their wives to procreate. For pleasure they went to the brothel or fuck a slave or concubine.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
i think that’s also how it worked for medieval nobility