... structure (lots of bedrooms) as well as the erotic paintings on the walls. Prostitutes and Pimps were widely regarded as untrustworthy characters and both fell under the Roman category of "he who has made a living with his body" (along with thieves, gladiators, gladiatorial trainers, debtors and curiously actors) and were therefore in the lower class of citizen that were "forbidden from participating in the governments of small towns" (Roman Homosexuality; Craig Williams P. 39). An interesting punishment in the Augustan rein was to "compel adulteresses to work as prostitutes in brothels" (Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law in Ancient Rome; Mc Ginn P.171) this gives some idea of a prostitute's status. The most common users of brothels in Rome and Pompeii were young male citizens. This is because there was a huge differentiation in the ages that Roman males and females were married off. Roman men would often not be married ...

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