True, although she's never been accused of sexual immorality. Part of my point is that our culture doesn't have a model for acceptable expressions of sexual desire by post-menopausal women. We think it's weird and icky.
The Romans didn't; they found it a little risque, perhaps, but unproblematic precisely because there's no challenge to male familial authority if an elderly female widow is enjoying x-rated entertainment; she's acceptably outside the normal familial structure and the only danger is corrupting her grandson, which she carefully avoids doing. She's still demonstrating her familial loyalty but her sexuality is no longer at all threatening.
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The Romans didn't; they found it a little risque, perhaps, but unproblematic precisely because there's no challenge to male familial authority if an elderly female widow is enjoying x-rated entertainment; she's acceptably outside the normal familial structure and the only danger is corrupting her grandson, which she carefully avoids doing. She's still demonstrating her familial loyalty but her sexuality is no longer at all threatening.
Sorry, thinking as I write.