"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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