Haworth Press. p. 5. For an extended dialogue of how the modern day notion of Roman sexual decadence can be traced to early Christian polemic, see Alastair J. L. Blanshard, "Roman Vice," in Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. See also Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune, Violence in opposition to Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook (Continuum, 1995), p. Carole E.