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***GOLD OPULENCE***Cinaedus

 

"CINAEDUS"

Cinaedus is a derogatory word denoting a male who was gender-deviant; his choice of sex acts, or preference in sexual partner, was secondary to his perceived deficiencies as a "man" (vir).
Although in some contexts cinaedus may denote "passive homosexual" and is the most frequent word for a male who allowed himself to be penetrated anally, a man called cinaedus might also have sex with and be considered highly attractive to women. Cinaedus is not necessarily equivalent to the English vulgarism "faggot," except that both words can be used to deride a male considered deficient in manhood or with androgynous characteristics whom women may find sexually alluring.
The clothing, use of cosmetics, and mannerisms of a cinaedus marked him as effeminate, but the same effeminacy that Roman men might find alluring in a puer became unattractive in the physically mature male. The cinaedus thus represented the absence of what Romans considered true manhood, and the word is virtually untranslatable into English.
Originally, a cinaedus (Greek kinaidos) was a professional dancer, characterized as non-Roman or "Eastern"; the word itself may come from a language of Asia Minor. His performance featured tambourine-playing and movements of the buttocks that suggested anal intercourse.

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***GOLD OPULENCE*** Impudicitia

 

"IMPUDICITIA"

The abstract noun impudicitia (adjective impudicus) was the negation of pudicitia, "sexual morality, chastity." As a characteristic of males, it often implies the willingness to be penetrated.
Impudicitia might be associated with behaviors in young men who retained a degree of boyish attractiveness but were old enough to be expected to behave according to masculine norms. Julius Caesar was accused of bringing the notoriety of infamia upon himself, both when he was about 19, for taking the passive role in an affair with King Nicomedes of Bithynia, and later for many adulterous affairs with women. Seneca the Elder noted that "impudicita is a crime for the freeborn, a necessity in a slave, a duty for the freedman": Homosexual practice in Rome asserted the power of the citizen over slaves, confirming his masculinity.

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***GOLD OPULENCE*** The age of lust

***GOLD OPULENCE***   The age of lust photoshooting

5 Anni dopo "GOLD*BRAHMA", il mio primo progetto-allestimento di autoscatti, quando ancora mi muovevo maldestramente solo con una webcam e qualche sfondo virtuale , ritorna l'elemento ORO in un contesto effimero e opulento.
Questo nuovo progetto vuole essere una libera e fantasiosa interpretazione o ancor meglio un'evocazione contemporanea della prostituzione maschile e dell'omosessualità nell'antica Roma imperiale, alla ricerca di un antico desiderio umano sempre più diffuso e mai sopito...

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