Seth Gruber

And within a decade of the ascension of Jesus and the foundation of the early church, Caligula's power grew fierce.

He began persecuting Christians.

Many started to call Caligula insane.

He became a total sex pervert, but he was popular with the citizens because he was building buildings and giving them lots of cool things, right?

That's why Rush Limbaugh said, you can't beat Santa.

But despite this, his perversity became undeniable.

According to historians, Suetonius and Dio-

Ali Caligula established a brothel in the Imperial Palace staffed by children.

Now, buying sex with kids should outrage us, but it often doesn't anymore.

We forget the perversity of the ancient world.

Sexual orgies became common life in his court, but there was apparently a method to Caligula's madness.

He's remembered as this perverse, kind of like insane ruler, but that misses the key to Caligula, who really codifies libido dominandi.

His insanity was strategic.

it was very Epstein-ish, okay?

He wasn't given over to fleshly pursuits simply because he was a sensate reprobate, although he was.

Caligula correctly saw it as a tool to control others.

He believed that if he could completely corrupt the morals of the Roman Senate,

then he could control them because all their filters would be off.

So Caligula forced his sexual addictions on the imperial court.

He violated wives in front of their husbands.