True. I do find artistic obscenities fascinating, in particular when they look anachronistic. It's impressive than such an old artwork has survived time long enough despite featuring such sulfurous content.

And speaking for myself, it's not that I did not think of them as incapable of moral wrong doings - Antiquity was clearly a brutal period - or producing provocative work. But, I would have expected them to be more prude and limited in their ability to deliver artistic "shock value".

Well, I was wrong! They were very well capable of crude depiction and unsettling vulgarity - even for our contemporary standards!