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I do not mean personal, I mean cultural, especially in the West. Nipples are more taboo than gore, sex work is not accepted openly as any other profession, you'd probably be a little weirded out if I had a miniature of Priapus with his remarkable erection [1] in my house.

Of course, times have changes since the Romans, but it'd be quite disingenuous to say that we are as sexually free and disinhibited as they were. We're still recovering from the Middle Ages censorship and Christian mortification of the flesh. I'd argue we've reverted back from whatever sexual freedom the Hippies in the 60s were striving for to a more conservative society on that aspect.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus



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