HBO Rome-Blog on Legio VI website

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I think this episode set a record for on-screen screwing

Yes, indeedy, a lot of "boinking" going on there. Oddly enough, I thought of it as a very female-oriented episode, maybe compensation for the previous couple of macho, military-oriented ones. The subtext of this one was "getting hitched" -- it starts out with a wedding (Locusta and Posca), moves on to Pullo canoodling with his pregnant wife, moves on to an engagement, goes into more canoodling (Atia and Antony), then to some pretty hard-core "boinking" (Pullo and Gaia), some more "boinking" (Agrippa and Octavia), more canoodling (Atia and Antony), and finally another wedding (Antony and Octavia), followed by more boinking (same). Which brings up the question: Do women like to watch on-screen canoodling, or hard-core "boinking"?