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So, I watched the documentary everyone is talking about, not the one about the Menendez brothers or the one about the Cold War, both on Netflix, both excellent, but the one about Lily Phillips,

the only fan's porn star, who had sex with 100 men in a single day. The short documentary about

that day by British YouTuber Josh Peters is straightforwardly titled, I Slept With 100 Men in One Day.

It's also surprisingly thoughtful and engaging. And as I watched, I kept thinking

about Messalina. Messalina was the third wife of Claudius. Claudius was the fourth emperor of Rome

after Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula. And Messalina, according to the sources, was a huge slut. And why shouldn't she be?

Claudius was almost 50 when she was forced to marry him and she was only 18. She deserved

better dick. And the men of ancient Rome were notoriously slutty themselves. But ancient Rome

was a brutally patriarchal society where adultery, when committed by women, was a

crime punishable by death. And when adultery was committed by men, it was a Tuesday afternoon at the

brothel. Full disclosure, my Roman Empire is the Roman Empire. Anyway, Messalina, according to the

sources, which are famously unreliable where the lives of the women of Rome's imperial family are concerned.

I mean, they can't all have been murderous sluts or slutty murderesses. What are the odds?

But according to the sources, Messalina challenged Rome's most famous prostitute, Silia, to a fuck off, a contest.

Who could fuck more men in a single night?

The teenage empress of Rome were the most famous whore in the world at the time.

Famous fleeting, I had to look up her name. Anyway, Messalina won this contest by fucking 25 men in a single night.

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