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Account for the nature and characteristics of prostitution in ancient Rome and Pompeii.
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Tim Johnson Ancient Rome Helen King Account for the nature and characteristics of prostitution in ancient Rome and Pompeii. A Roman man had many options when it came to sexually gratifying himself. Firstly if he were married there would be his wife, but this certainly did not have to be his only sexual partner. A Roman man would often have slaves "and the possibility that their master might make sexual use of them, was an unquestioned Roman tradition." (Roman Homosexuality; Craig Williams P. 37). A Roman man could also turn to prostitutes- persons who were not his slaves who he paid for sexual pleasures. Prostitutes would often be slaves owned by masters called 'lenones' (pimps) who hired them out to men. This would often take place in a brothel; these establishments were perfectly legal and quite commonplace in Ancient Rome. Brothels were seen as an unsavoury but necessary part of the urban landscape of...
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