Not really sure I understand your disapproval.
This was the original
pleasure palace. In the sumptuous gardens, young men and women dressed as nubile nymphs and coquettish Pans openly prostituted themselves to guests in woodland 'lechery nooks' beneath the stars.
Inside the imperial cliff-top villa, fortified by the finest food and wines served by nude handmaidens, wanton licence took hold. Troupes of beautiful youths of both sexes, gathered from all corners of the Roman world and trained in unusual sexual practices, reclined in vast marble halls ready to excite the elderly Emperor's flagging libido.
Known as spintriae, their role was to perform erotic sexual practices in groups before the head of the empire - a man who was commonly known by his subjects as 'the old goat'.
Many of the lavish regal rooms were furnished with pornography and explicit sex manuals from Egypt - in case any of their number was unsure precisely what was expected of them.
In a private chamber, the Emperor indulged his most obscene desires to the full. He had little boys trained as minnows or 'tiddlers' to chase him when he went swimming in the imperial pool, nibbling between his legs.
This was the royal residence at Capri, where Tiberius the Tyrant lived a life of extraordinary debauchery. For more than a decade in the early part of the first century AD, this picturesque Italian island was the principal home of the Roman emperor.
Here, he practised lechery and bloodlust in equal measure, hosting endless summer orgies and watching his enemies being tortured before being thrown 300ft off the cliffs into the sea below.
Two thousand years later, Tiberius's villa could be about to fall into the hands of another famous Roman - the equally powerful but distinctly less deviant owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich. The Russian billionaire is said to have set his heart on buying a £21million cliff-top castle on Capri.
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