Saeculum obscurum

Naked Theodora and Marozia taking a bath together -- It's unknown whether or not they incestuously fucked each other.

Saeculum obscurum ("the dark age/century"), also known as the Rule of the Harlots (German: Hurenregiment) or the Pornocracy, was a period of time (896-964) where popes in Rome were strongly influenced by promiscuous slutty women of the corrupt aristocratic family (the Theophylacti), namely by Theodora and her daughter Marozia who used their sexual relationships with popes and/or their favorites to exert considerable political influence. This era is seen as one of the 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 "The Works of Liudprand of Cremona: Antapodosis, Liber De Rebus Gestis Ottonis, Relatio De Legatione Constantinopolitana" — Some male feminist, SJW and/or foid historians nowadays try to insuade that Luiprand of Cremona was a 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 raped by her regularly.

Fictive portrait of Marozia from the 19th century.

She was generally accused of whoring around with statusmaxxed 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 marriages (notably advancing her daughter Marozia’s matches), which brought military backing and allowed the family to seize and hold power in Rome.

Citation

‘Theodora, who, as I have declared, was 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 handsome person that not only did she offer herself to him as his mistress, 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)

Marozia

Marozia became the adulterous cumslut concubine of the 45-year-old oldcel Pope Sergius III when she was 15/16 years old teenager (who's also rumored to be the actual father of her son John, which is why the latter Pope John XI may have descended from Sergius III), while 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

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