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Discussion by Phang, Roman Military Service, pp.

The poet 4th century AD makes a joke about a male threesome that depends on imagining the configurations of group sex: "Three men in bed together: two are sinning, two are sinned against.

Both Martial and Juvenal refer to marriage between males as something that occurs not infrequently, although they disapprove of it.

Negative connotations of nudity include defeat in war, since captives were stripped, and slavery, since slaves for sale were often displayed naked.