As I lay back having my hair washed afterwards,
the handsome young assistant gave me a luxurious, slow, sensuous head massage.
The day before the «fight with the beasts,» Perpetua records her vision where she is led to the amphitheatre, where, in preparation for a fight against an Egyptian, «of vicious appearance,»
handsome young men join Perpetua, as seconds and
assistants, and before the fight, she records that her «clothes were stripped off, and suddenly I was a man.»