The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum. This was was written on the wall of a bar/brothel: “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”
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Ahem. https://kottke.org/12/07/weep-you-girls
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