How popular were zoophilia shows in the Roman Colosseum?

In Ancient Rome bestiality was a form of mass entertainment. The Coliseum and Circus Maximus were often the stages for public spectacles of the rape of men and woman by captured beasts. A variety of animals were trained to copulate with Haynes |4 humans, including bulls, giraffes, leopards, zebras and apes. read more

For those who would have wanted to satisfy such prudings it would have been easier to explore the possibilities of the varied world of Roman prostitution were such entertainment would have been easily possible and legal since there is no hint of punishment for zoophilia in the Roman Law. read more

Early Christians were among the most popular victims in ludi meridiani. The emperors who condemned these men, women and children to public death by beasts did so with the obvious hope that the spectacle would be so horrifying and humiliating that it would discourage any other Romans from converting to Christianity. read more

So it's hard to imagine that chimpanzees, along with various other species from sub-Saharan Africa, were imported to the Roman Empire and trained to perform sexual acts. It sounds like modern fiction to me, perhaps inspired by ancient myths. read more