Ah, for those wondering about the prettyboys comment, as it’s a bit more obscure than the rest…
“Although they [the Celts] have good-looking women, they pay very little attention to them, but are really crazy about having sex with men. They are accustomed to sleeping on the ground on animal skins and roll around naked with male bed-mates on both sides… When they proposition someone, they consider it dishonourable if he doesn’t accept the offer!” - Diodorus Siculus
Hmm, this sounds like propaganda, tbh
There’s probably some measure of cultural chauvinism and exaggeration involved there, but the consistency of Greek and Roman accounts on the relative sexual flexibility afforded by Celtic cultures suggests that there’s some measure of truth in it.
In any case, it makes for great meme material!
No, of course there’s some measure of truth there. I myself have read of such accounts. The point is that it is probably (very) exaggerated, but what do I know.
