Gay spartacus sex scene
The hypocrisy of fans who anticipate more gay content from Da Vinci's Demons because of Nagron on Spartacus...
After reading almost all the Da Vinci’s Demons akin comments on the Blacklot site and Tumblr, I had to rage a little here as I’m seeing a lot of negativity directed towards the show and unfair Spartacus comparisons.
Do people realize there was an entire season, a six episode prequel and half of S2 before Nagron became canon? So it’s okay for the Spartacus writers to hold over two and a half years to “get the gay characters right,” but Da Vinci’s Demons has failed after only 5 episodes?
*Note Spartacus was a fantastic exhibit before Nagron and I would hold watched it whether there were queer characters or not. Also this got way too prolonged and ranty but bear with me…
Yes, I know there was gay inclusion with Barca and the slave lad Pietros in S1 (and the fandom was totally expired back then because Tumblr didn’t remain and no one seemed to look after about the male lover characters until the visually stunning Nagron came onto the scene). And how many episodes did it take for Barca’s first passion scene (wh
Last article we launch out how actresses handled same-sex scenes. Now it’s the guy’s turn!
Gale Harold of Homosexual as Folk, Freddie Smith of Days of Our Lives and Dan Feuerriegel of Spartacus weigh in on what was once the most controversial characters to portray.
(Photographer Robert E. Beckwith)
You gave us quite a scare when you had your motorcycle accident during your “Desperate Housewives” run. Has the accident changed you regarding how you feel about life and your career?
The accident was a definite mortality check. Afterwards I had to re-think life from almost every angle. I learned how blessed I am not only to be alive, but to be surrounded by the wonderful people in my experience who came to my side, looked after me and gave me an anchor to rely on. Their presence was fundamental in my recovery not only physically but psychologically. The places I went to were the worst and most ter
When in Rome…
The Roman take on sex and sexuality was very different from ours. The Romans were more relaxed about male than about female sexuality and a lot depended on what class of society you were in. As you would predict, slaves were less free than freeborn citizens.
Prostitution was legal. Sex with prostitutes was common and not frowned upon. Even one of the most conservative bigwigs, the Roman traditionalist Cato the Elder said it was okay for a man to see a brothel sometimes (as prolonged as he didn’t overdo it).
At the same time, showing tenderness in public was a sensitive issue. According to one root, the very same Cato had another politician stripped of office for kissing his wife in public!
‘Moral laws’
Romans even passed laws to regulate sexual intercourse.
Augustus, the first Roman emperor, was very reserved when it came to sex. He passed a whole position of laws to help families having children. The laws gave benefits to those who married and had three or more children and fined people who were able to marry but refused.
Adultery was severely punished. If a man was caught having sex with a married gal, he was tried before a criminal court. If fo
We’ve all seen Spartacus. It’s a classic of the sword-and-sandals genre, as successfully as part of the slender canon of films directed by Stanley Kubrick—only 13 feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career. The story of a slave rebellion in ancient Rome which became the Third Servile War, it has enlivened many a bank holiday afternoon, and features a formidable cast, from its principal men, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, to the character studies provided by English greats Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov.
Spartacus was a box office slap when it was released in 1960. It was the highest-grossing film of that year, bringing in $17 million, and Variety noted wryly that “Kubrick has out-DeMilled the elderly master”. Critics were divided, some savaging Douglas’s stiff performance as the eponymous slave, while Hedda Hopper, one of the titans of the review pages, was blunt: “The story was sold to Universal from a book written by a commie and the screen script was written by a commie, so don’t go to see it.” But people did.
In 1991, the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, having recently staged a tribute to Kirk Douglas, asked Universal Pictures