I trust Markus so much that I let myself go. We arrived at this university residence and he took me through long dark corridors to a large hall packed with people and with two rooms, one with rock music and one with classical music. When I took a closer look around I saw that all the participants in the party were dressed as ancient Romans and ancient Greeks, there were slaves, guards, kings and queens…whoa!

And above all, there was a large rota fortunae (Wheel of Fortune) in the centre, at the intersection between the two rooms, on which some young girls were whipped and even wounded, but with care,...