{"id":3813,"date":"2025-08-02T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-greco-roman-rules-for-sex\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:03:25","slug":"the-ancient-greco-roman-rules-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-greco-roman-rules-for-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"The ancient Greco-Roman rules for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FIcWNsV9b-4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Roman writer Celsus declared that people shouldn&#8217;t abstain from sex during summer and \u2013 ideally \u2013 autumn. What&#8217;s the logic behind this seemingly arbitrary rule? Claire Bubb explains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full conversation ad-free at historyextra.com\/podcast or search &#8216;historyextra&#8217; wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 by Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>#Romans #GrecoRoman #History #HistoryExtra<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FIcWNsV9b-4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman writer Celsus declared that people shouldn&#8217;t abstain from sex during summer and \u2013 ideally \u2013 autumn. What&#8217;s the logic behind this seemingly arbitrary rule? Claire Bubb explains&#8230; Listen to the full conversation ad-free at historyextra.com\/podcast or search &#8216;historyextra&#8217; wherever you listen to podcasts. \ud83d\udcf8 by Getty Images #Romans #GrecoRoman #History #HistoryExtra source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150698,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}