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The first documented moon
by Gnat
“ ‘Mooning’ is an act in which the buttocks are exposed to another party. In many cases, this is done as an expression of hostility. In approximately 80 AD, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. When Roman soldiers marched past the Jerusalem temple with banners bearing the insignia of the imperial eagle, temple priests and elders began to pelt the soldiers with stones. Josephus describes the Roman response as follows: ‘a centurion stopped and faced the Jews. He then, turning in the opposite direction, raised his tunic, lowered his loin cloth, bent over and bared his hindermost parts to the priests and elders.’”
Source: Vieth, Victor I. (2001) “When the Child Abuser is a Child: Investigating, Prosecuting and Treating Juvenile Sex Offenders in the New Millennium” Hamline Law Review. 25:1 (47-78)
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