I feel like there’s a good chance that many of the Vestal Virgins were lusted after by their contemporaries, and possibly did things that socially or parasocially attached them to their fans.
They probably wouldn’t have had to come up with the bloodless death punishment for breaking their vows if it weren’t for the fact that enough of them were breaking their vows that they needed to make a rule about it.
I feel like there’s a good chance that many of the Vestal Virgins were lusted after by their contemporaries, and possibly did things that socially or parasocially attached them to their fans.
They probably wouldn’t have had to come up with the bloodless death punishment for breaking their vows if it weren’t for the fact that enough of them were breaking their vows that they needed to make a rule about it.
That being said, yes, I also very much agree K-pop stars and J-pop stars and the like are also lumped into that larger group.