We appreciate today that a stable family structure is one of the basic building blocks for a healthy society. Societies in which the family unit is falling apart are societies in trouble. Physicality and sexuality were rampant in the ancient world. While these are certainly hot topics today, we'll see that they were even hotter topics in the ancient world.
Today there seems to be an obsession with sexuality.
Look at advertising. The power of sex to sell, specifically to men, is unbelievable. Twenty years ago, TV commercials used to promote a product by commending its quality and discussing its benefits. The Greeks, Romans and other civilizations of antiquity were even more obsessed with sex than we are.