Caligula - Sex and Sexual Perversions
[edit] Incest
He took his sister's virginity, Drusilla and was once caught having sex with her by his grandmother Antonia.
It is believed, that he deflowered one of them, Drusilla, before he had assumed the robe of manhood; and was even caught in her embraces by his grandmother Antonia
[edit] Adultery
He continued to have sexual intercourse with his sister when she was married to Cassius Longinus
When she was afterwards married to Cassius Longinus, a man of consular rank, he took her from him, and kept her constantly as if she were his lawful wife.
With Olivia Orestilla upon her marriage to Caius Piso he ordered the bride be taken to his house and married her himself
he ordered the bride to be carried to his own house, but within a few days divorced her
With Lollia Paulina who was married to man high ranking Roman in charge of an army. He married her also before divorcing her
Lollia Paulina who was married to a man of consular rank With Caesonia. She willing partook in an adulterous affair although married on account of her voracious sexual appetite
He loved with a most passionate and constant affection Caesonia, who was neither handsome nor young; and was besides the mother of three daughters by another man; but a wanton of unbounded lasciviousness
He regularly invited males colleagues and their wives to dinner. He would have them parade in front of him and at leisure choose which wives to defile. Upon returning back with a woman after intercourse he would then humiliate the husband and wife with comments about how well or badly the wives performed the sexual acts.
Afterwards, as often as he was in the humour, he would quit the room, send for her he liked best, and in a short time return with marks of recent disorder about them. He would then commend or disparage her in the presence of the company, recounting the charms or defects of her person and behaviour in private
[edit] Prostitution
Caligula prostituted his sisters to his catamites (young homosexual lovers)
rest of his sisters he did not treat with so much fondness or regard; but frequently prostituted them to his catamites.
Caligula sough the company of a prostitute called Pyrallis
sides his incest with his sisters, and his notorious passion for Pyrallis, the prostitute...
[edit] Homosexuality
In reference to prostituing his sisters it is said that he offered them to his catamites (young homsoexual lovers)
rest of his sisters he did not treat with so much fondness or regard; but frequently prostituted them to his catamites.
Caligula was attracted to a young actor Marcus Lepidus Mnester who is said he regularly had intercourse with
He is said to have been inflamed with an unnatural passion for Marcus Lepidus Mnester, an actor in pantomimes, and for certain hostages; and to have engaged with them in the practice of mutual pollution
Caligula also had sexual relations with a young man from a consular family called Valerius Catullus
Valerius Catullus, a young man of a consular family, bawled aloud in public that he had been exhausted by him in that abominable act.
