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In her previous catalogs, Vicki Len put listeners in the sandals of now obsolete laborers, ranging from funeral clowns to armpit pluckers, and untangled the twisted threads of superstition and technology in antiquity. Now, in this reserve of amazing true stories of love and gender in long-ago Greece, Rome, and other civilizations throughout the Mediterranean, she opens the gates to shadowy rooms and parts the curtains of decorum. Len goes far beyond what we should think we know about gender in ancient times, taking listeners over a randy head to of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressing, and gender-bending. She talks about citizens' fear of hermaphrodites, investigates the stinging price paid for adultery despite the ease of divorce, introduces listeners to a unusual selection of saucy pornographers, and even identifies the eco-friendly dildos utilized by libidinous ancients. Love also gets its scheduled, with true stories of the lifelong bonds between military services men, history's first cougar and her committed romance with Julius Caesar, and the deification of enthusiasts.
