Ecclesiastes 1:9:
“What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
These chicks may be the latest contestants, but most certainly not the first.
The Immortal Meretrix Regina - Harlot Queen of Emperor Claudius.
Valeria Messalina
(from Wikipedia - boring parts omitted)
"Two authors especially supplemented the gossip and officially dictated versions recorded by later historians and added to Messalina's notoriety. One such story is the account of her all-night sex competition with a prostitute in Book X of
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History, according to which the competition lasted "night and day" and Messalina won with a score of 25 partners.
[50]
The poet
Juvenal mentions Messalina twice in his satires. As well as the story in his tenth satire that she compelled
Gaius Silius to divorce his wife and marry her,
[51] the
sixth satire contains the notorious description of how the Empress used to work clandestinely all night in a brothel under the name of the She-Wolf.
[52] In the course of that account, Juvenal coined the phrase frequently applied to Messalina thereafter,
meretrix augusta (the imperial whore). In so doing, he coupled her reputation with that of
Cleopatra, another victim of imperially directed
character assassination, whom the poet
Propertius had earlier described as
meretrix regina (the harlot queen).
[53]"
Pliny the Elder is one of my favorite historians. Wikipedia has wiped his quotes from the page - probably due to misogamy or something.
In his account of Messalina he states that the whore that Messalina wanted to compete (the brothel owner and Boss Whore), required to be paid for each man. She apparently was given a gold coin from the imperial treasury for each man.
"My queen, for you this is a hobby, to me it is a profession. My hobby is gardening".
My sides.
