The ultimate pride, was to be a master to many slaves | Photo: ITV2 Bromans The Roman Army got weirdly intimate They didn’t necessarily consider this to be a disgrace, but it was not as widely accepted. Louis Crompton, suggests in his book Homosexuality and Civilisation that Roman gay relationships were completely focused on this dominance and the master vs slave dynamic.īut it gets even more complicated if your bottom was ‘free born’ – and therefore not a slave. The master would use his property as he saw fit.

And whether it was a sexual situation or not – the will or care of the slave was not really considered.