Saeculum obscurum


[[File:Marozia e Teodora.jpg|thumb|[[Nudity|Naked]] '''Theodora''' and '''Marozia''' taking a [[Personal hygiene|bath]] together -- It's unknown whether or not they [[Incestuals|incestuously]] [[Copulation|fucked each other]]. ]]
'''''Saeculum obscurum''''' ("the dark age/century"), also known as the '''Rule of the [[Slut|Harlots]]''' ([[German incelosphere|German]]: ''Hurenregiment)'' or the '''Pornocracy''', was a period of time (896-964) where popes in [[Rome]] were strongly influenced by [[Promiscuity|promiscuous]] [[Slut|slutty]] [[Femoid|women]] of the corrupt aristocratic family (the Theophylacti), namely by '''Theodora''' and her [[Reproductive success|daughter]] '''Marozia''' who used their [[Relationship|sexual relationships]] with popes and/or their favorites to exert considerable [[Politics|political influence]]. This era is seen as one of the [[Behavioral sink|lowest societal points]] of the history of the papal office.

'''Liudprand of Cremona''' — a historian, diplomat, and the bishop of Cremona born in northern Italy, whose works are an important source for the politics of the 10th-century Byzantine court — wrote about this which is now embedded in ''"[https://archive.org/details/theworksofliudprandwright/page/92/mode/2up The Works of Liudprand of Cremona: Antapodosis, Liber De Rebus Gestis Ottonis, Relatio De Legatione Constantinopolitana"]'' — Some [[Male feminists|male feminist]], [[Social Justice Warrior|SJW]] and/or [[Femoid|foid]] historians nowadays try to insuade that Luiprand of Cremona was a [[Misogyny|misogynist]] who made his claims up, or whose claims are at least 'unverified'.

== Theodora ==
'''Theodora''' was a ''senatrix'' (female member of the Roman Senate) who married Theophylact I to use him to exercise de facto control over Rome’s secular government and influence over the papacy (directing political affairs, the militia and public office appointments). After her husband's death, she got back with her former lover Giovanni da Tossignano, who's rumored to have been [[Rape|raped]] by her regularly. 
[[File:Marozia.jpg|thumb|312x312px|Fictive portrait of '''Marozia''' from the 19th century.]]
She was generally accused of [[Whoring|whoring around]] with [[Statusmaxx|statusmaxxed]] [[Dominance hierarchy|clerics and nobles]] behind closed doors, and of using those relationships to her advantage. 

She and her family installed and removed popes (they're credited with placing puppet pontiffs and manipulating papal succession throughout the early 10th century → several short, politically controlled pontificates) and engineered dynastic alliances and [[Marriage|marriages]] (notably advancing her daughter Marozia’s matches), which brought military backing and allowed the family to seize and hold power in Rome.

=== Citation ===
<blockquote>‘Theodora, who, as I have declared, was [[Slutting it up with the slayers|a quite shameless harlot, saw the young man, and at once was all on fire with lust to possess him]]. So inflamed was she by his [[Beauty|handsome]] [[Chad|person]] that not only did she offer herself to him as his mistress, [[Rape|but forced him to comply with her desires again and again]] [...] Thereupon Theodora, with a harlot’s wanton naughtiness, fearing that she would have few opportunities of going to bed with her sweetling if he were separated from her by the two hundred miles that lie between Ravenna and Rome, forced him to abandon his archbishopric at Ravenna, and take for himself — O monstrous crime! — the papacy of Rome.' (S. 93)</blockquote>

== Marozia ==
'''Marozia''' became the [[Infidelity|adulterous]] [[Slut-shaming|cumslut]] [[concubine]] of the [[Oldcel|45-year-old oldcel]] Pope Sergius III [[Teenager|when she was 15/16 years old teenager]] (who's also rumored to be the actual [[Reproductive success|father]] of her son John, which is why the latter Pope John XI may have descended from Sergius III), while [[Cuckmaxx|actually having other lovers or husbands]]. 

When allied with Guy of Tuscany to seize Rome (capture Castel Sant’Angelo), she imprisoned John X to then kill him in custody (accounts vary between murder, smothering, or death by mistreatment), so she could then place short-lived popes (Leo VI, Stephen VII) on the throne, and to eventually getting her son John XI elected pope in 931. 

=== Citation ===
<blockquote>'Marotia and Theodora, and these damsels were not only her equals but could even surpass her in the exercises that Venus loves.' (S. 92)</blockquote>