How, Where and with Whom:The Politics of Sex in Ancient Greece
Scott, Michael
Published Online (2004)
Abstract
A catchy title to pull in the punters and entice them away from going punting proper was appropriate for an MCR lecture on a warm afternoon in May. This paper, in living up to the promise of that title, discusses the politics of sex through an investigation of the sexual positions and activities of women, 
men, slaves, foreigners and satyrs (half men, half horse creatures) as depicted on the pots and pans that surrounded the ancient Greeks. The question for this paper is: how does the display of the sexual act itself contribute towards the making, breaking and maintaining of social, political and gender hierarchies in the societies within which the images are visible? What does it mean to put, what we today might consider, ’private’ business on public display? What indeed are the politics of sex?
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