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Ancient Romans: You idiots put walls up around you? What the fuck, are you embarrassed? Are you ashamed of breathing, too? Holy fuck, Claudius, check out these weirdos lolol
The only time Romans didn't want to build a wall.
As the latrine situation implies, Romans were not very privacy-oriented! To the point that Julius Caesar, of dictator and conqueror fame, was considered somewhat weird because he read silently, in his head, rather than out loud. It seemed furtive and secretive to the Romans, for whom almost everything was an affair to be shared!
It makes some sense that they’d think “we don’t hide from each other when the food goes in, why the fuck would we hide from each other when the food comes out?”
Does make me wonder when and what/who caused the near-global shift to the decision to normalize that regular body functions are to be seen as embarrassing.
Side effect of the sanitation movement. You don't want your asshole neighbor judging you for only wiping once.
Eww. You guys wipe?
They were into orgies and group sex?