Exploring pleasure to its limit - Romans, etc

[excreationist]

8:05 "When you have explored pleasure to its ultimate limit the only thing you can get a kick out of is pain"

Are there any other examples besides the Romans with their orgies and shows with lions killing people for entertainment?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

England's Hell Fire clubs.
Turkish Sultans and their harems and opulent palaces.
The free wheeling Wiemar Republic cabaret society.
Japan's floating world with their geishas and red light districts.
The last French kings at their Versailles court.

Just for starters.