2. An Imperial Pleasure Palace of Depravity
Tiberius also had pleasure gardens stocked with teenaged and prepubescent boys and girls. He had them dressed in outfits from Greco-Roman myths and legends, or run around naked, to frolic about, display themselves for his pleasure, and engage in carnal relations on command with each other. As he grew older, Tiberius grew increasingly impotent, and was often reduced to being a spectator in the perversions acted out for his pleasure. Inside his palaces and villas, he had walls covered with explicit paintings and murals of all kinds of carnal activity, from the routine to the shockingly depraved. The artwork served as a menu, and when Tiberius wanted to cut to the chase, all he had to do was point at a particular painting to communicate what he wanted done.
