Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Woman Sitting On Woman's Belly

"Delicatae" or escorts of ancient Rome.


The presence of male and female slaves in the homes would be one of the reasons for the sexual freedom that is associated with the Roman world. This so-called sexual freedom would be intimately associated with an extensive development of prostitution. As in much of the historical periods in Rome, the prostitutes had to wear different clothes, dye their hair or wear a wig yellow and form a municipal register. No wonder, Cato the Elder said that "It is good that young people be possessed by lust to brothels instead of having to disturb the other men's wives."

In year 1 there is a record of 32,000 prostitutes were collected, usually at brothel called brothels, licensed facilities near municipal amphitheatres or circuses and places where sex was a supplement to the main activity taverns bathrooms or inns.

districts Esquilino and the Circus Maximus had a higher density of brothels humble while most elegant were at the fourth region, usually decorated with murals alluding to sex and identified on the street with a large phallus which was illuminated by night. Prostitutes display their charms used outside the brothel and was common at the doors of the rooms there is a price list and services.

Prostitutes were divided into different classes: calls prostitutes were registered in public lists while prostibulae exercising their profession where they could, getting rid of the tax. The delicatae were high-class prostitutes, taking clients include senators, business or general.

The famosae had the same class, but belonged to the patrician class, dedicated to this office or by economic necessity or pleasure. These include the famous Messalina, Agrippina the younger or Julia, the daughter of Augustus.

The so-called ambulatarae was named to work on the street or at the circus while the magnifier working in the woods near the city and bustuariae in cemeteries.

favorite place for sexual intercourse were the bathrooms, offering its services both men and women, even know the existence of some brothels frequented by high-class women where they could use the services of handsome young men.

were laws regulating prostitution, such as the Opium Ordinance, referred to the clothing and excessive decorations of the street prostitutes. The offspring of patrician families imbibed lessons of voluptuousness motley while fighting the armies of Rome, Greece and Asia Minor. They learned to squander their wealth in the fine arts school whores those land (similar in charm and skills of medieval Japanese geishas). On his return to Rome again encountering the rules set by the native talent rougher and less sophisticated, so they had no choice but to import savvy prostitutes of both sexes of Greece and Syria, mostly. Thus were born throughout the Empire houses and brothels where prostitution was becoming succulent art to change deniers.

Of course, there was always for the poor, national product on the street, cheaper, also suitable for demanding palates racanerĂ­a affected. Clandestine prostitutes had the support of politicians and prominent citizens. The income of a brothel is considered a legitimate source of income, and had not set a fine for prostitution in general.

Spa and brothels of ancient Rome.

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