CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Toward a History of Sexuality -- Feminist Work Within Classics -- Philology, the New Historicism, and the Foucauldian Theory of Sexuality in Antiquity -- Through the Garden and Back -- Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 1. Roman Concepts of Obscenity -- Apologiae -- Decorum in Prose -- "Four-Letter Words" -- Staining -- CHAPTER 2. The Erotic Ideal in Latin Literature and Contemporary Greek Epigram -- Pueri -- Mistresses -- CHAPTER 3. The Content and Workings of Roman Sexual Humor -- Descriptive Analysis: The Priapic Model -- The Genres of Roman Sexual Humor -- The Subjects of Roman Satire -- Other Models for Satire: Judgmental Analysis -- CHAPTER 4. Graffiti, Gossip, Lampoons, and Rhetorical Invective -- Graffiti -- Gossip -- Lampoons -- Rhetorical Invective -- CHAPTER 5. Literature Based on Invective: Invective against Old Women, Priapic Poetry, and Epigram -- Invective against Old Women -- Priapic Poetry -- Epigram -- Appendix: The Date and Authorship of the Carmina Priapea -- CHAPTER 6. Catullus, Ovid, and the Art of Mockery -- Catullus -- Ovid -- CHAPTER 7. Sexual Satire -- Lucilius -- Horace -- Persius -- Petronius -- Juvenal -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1. The Evidence on the Circumstances Surrounding Adultery at Rome -- APPENDIX 2. The Circumstances of Male Homosexuality in Roman Society of the Late Republic and Early Empire -- Invective -- Erotic Poetry -- Some Real-Life Evidence -- Ideals -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA -- ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED -- INDEX VERBORUM -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.