One Morning in Potaissa - Gang Rape Galore

[Lucius]

@HistBuff Thank you!

[Shocker]

A well deserved addition to the popular story section.

[Writers_Bloque]

@Writers_Bloque Thank you for the comment!

As for further humiliation -- it was possible, I guess, but no soldier wanted to lose a chance to fuck her before the trial. Anything else would've gone down before the (almost) certain execution. That said, I suppose Ziptia did find her being sodomized in front of hundreds of soldiers pretty humiliating.

I have read in some histories like Pliny that sometimes the humiliation was much better than an execution, especially with the large societies where honor was worn like clothing. Cause death was very easy, but walking around marked and the constant ridicule was the most feared outcome. Rape in history was more of a power play than an act to get off. Sex was just a common thing. Noble bath houses during Saturnus (sp) and Baucchus (sp) were literally just show up naked with booze. I believe if memory served, a punishment for noble women was an orgasm free rape, where she was not allowed to climax, debasing her to the entire world, as the climax seals the act. But Ancient Greece and Rome was so loose, I believe and emperor fucked his whore stable while on the throne, while there was allusion to truth to the origin of the Arabian nights stories, where the king married, fucked then had the wives killed. so the rape itself was not the bad part, but the debasement. Still love the story. I may have not worded it right. The type of humiliation I wanted was more emotional, kind of like "Your are barely fit to clean my cock with your dirty whore pussy." than physical pain humiliation.

[Lucius]

I have read in some histories like Pliny that sometimes the humiliation was much better than an execution, especially with the large societies where honor was worn like clothing.

Ziptia is just a rebel woman of dubious status (free or slave?) on the outskirts of empire. Her honour? Little to none.

History writers back when and until the 20th century were interested in the upper classes. Yes, the loss of honour would've been the worst to a member of the senatorial class. The punishments of lower classes concerned them very little.

Cause death was very easy, but walking around marked and the constant ridicule was the most feared outcome.

Believe me, crucifixion wasn't easy!

Rape in history was more of a power play than an act to get off. Sex was just a common thing. Noble bath houses during Saturnus (sp) and Baucchus (sp) were literally just show up naked with booze.

No character in my story has ever seen a 'noble bath house' (I suppose that means 'private set of baths in a senatorial domus'?), or even the city of Rome, with the exception of the prefect and the general.

I believe if memory served, a punishment for noble women was an orgasm free rape, where she was not allowed to climax, debasing her to the entire world, as the climax seals the act.

No. it wasn't. You're welcome to have a look at the Digest, at Mommsen's Römisches Strafrecht, or later works on Roman criminal law-- BTW, Mommsen is one of those historians who weren't even thinking of how female slaves were punished... such sordid and trivial matters were beneath them.

But Ancient Greece and Rome was so loose, I believe and emperor fucked his whore stable while on the throne, while there was allusion to truth to the origin of the Arabian nights stories, where the king married, fucked then had the wives killed. so the rape itself was not the bad part, but the debasement. Still love the story. I may have not worded it right. The type of humiliation I wanted was more emotional, kind of like "Your are barely fit to clean my cock with your dirty whore pussy." than physical pain humiliation.

Thanks! It all depended on the emperor. My characters serve the calm, stolid, torpid Antoninus Pius who keeps a single middle-aged concubine and... Marcus Aurelius (yes, that one), the last one to indulge in whores. :D That said, my raping characters tend not to be talkative -- I've always been thrilled by the idea of men staying silent when raping a girl because it's beneath them to talk to her.

[Lucius]

A well deserved addition to the popular story section.

Thank you very much for your kind words!