The Roman Vomitorium.?

Question

This is one sick Acheint Roman practice that still gets me. I under stand the pactice of it, what it is, but what would drive a culture to accept a practice that they had to understand was discusting, unhealthy, and not a pleasent thing to do.

The Roman practice of having enormous parties, where dinners
ranged anywhere from three to ten courses. Guests, reclining
in couches, gorged themselves on delicacies. Once full,
wealthy Romans would retreat to the vomitorium to induce
vomiting and rejoin the party to continue eating.

People just tell what you think of the Roman practice!

Answer 1

Vomitorium: A tale, a myth;------
A popular misconception is that the Romans made use of a room called a vomitorium for the express purpose of vomiting between meals to make room for more food. Only a very small minority of the highest classes indulged in the practice of deliberately vomiting. A vomitorium is actually an entirely unrelated architectural feature – a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre, an exit through which the crowds could "spew out" at the end of a show. [1]

Vomitoria are still found in some theaters. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for instance, has vomitoria in two of its theaters, the outdoor Elizabethan Stage and the Angus Bowmer Theater. The voms, as they are called, allow actors to mount the stage from passageways cut into the amphitheater.

Answer 2

Roman Vomitorium

Answer 3

Well, you know what would drive the Roman's to eccept that practice? The same kind of extreme vanity and ego we have in ourselves in America today!

The desire to look Perfectly healthy, and have a body like an Atlete, cause nothing else is good enough for our ego.

How self consuming that is! The countless hours and tons of money we spent on just ourselves and our looks.

Constantly searching for food that has the least amount of calories and fat, and yet gives us the thrill that we seek from food, no matter what the cost to our bodies for real.

Like the chemicals we are poring into ourselves and our food to make that happen.

It's a complete glorification and obsession of the body, at the expense of the real health of the body, and the heart, mind and soul.

It's a media fed frenzy! The media is constantly pouring out information like this, it's a very subtle machine! All geared to keep us purchasing it's deceitful lying version of eternal life. Take Viagra for instance! For what, it kills?!

It's refusal to accept death. And just like that country song, "Youre still gonna, still gonna die.

Answer 4

Fall of Rome

Answer 5

Decadent.

Answer 6

I think it is gross too!! But you have to remember that they also had open toilets for both women and men, were openly bisexual (not that it is wrong), and had really no state of cleanliness.

Answer 7

Vile and loathsome. However, I don't think they knew it was unhealthy. But they had a hell of a lot more fun than we do!