Roman Seedlings

Maximus gathered his robes about him as he stepped off his dais. His servants stood at attention at this motion, but he waved them away. His toga was hot and his day listening to the sniveling complaints of his prefects had irritated him. Even the luscious slaves, their bronzed and oiled skin which glistened in the sun and whose sexual acrobatics usually aroused him, failed this time to do anything but annoy him. He sent everyone away, even his hound, and made his way down the marble corridor alone. As he walked, he thought of how he could amuse himself; perhaps a military campaign to the outer provinces might divert him? A trip to the crowded slums, disguised as a foreigner, perhaps, so he might have his way with the street children? Or perhaps an idle afternoon amongst the shepherds, commanding his finest centurions to pleasure themselves among the young boys who tended the beasts and the mute, dumb sheep whose wet and gaping vaginas winked so teasingly at groin’s height? But he knew where he’d head at this moment. He’d go to the only place that ever promised true arousal.

Maximus stood before the ivory and gold studded door and glanced at the two guards who stood at attention, erect and silent. Maximus contemplated the doorway whose intricately carved reliefs displayed the intimate scenes of copulation with man, woman, child and beast. Instinctively, his hand moved to his loins, which slowly began to stir. Maximus, aged 48, and ruler of the known world of the Roman empire, desired only to relieve himself within the sexual cavities of his own offspring. Behind this gilded door was a courtyard of flesh: a harem of his offspring which he had begun to cultivate since he took the throne at age 13. His father, the emperor Tacitavius, had sired Maximus from his loins by inseminating his own half-sister, the empress Lasilla. Maximus had always known the pleasures of the flesh, having slept in his parents’ bed his entire childhood and witnessed countless couplings of every sort: man and man, man and child, woman and child, sheep and man and dog and woman.