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Living in Pompeii before Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD. History and RolePlay under the shadow of this crucial historic event.

Taberna: the business quarter (1 threads, 565 posts)
    Phil´s Exotica (55 posts)
    Role Play Thread 0 Featured January 23 , 2004

    The Romans were more interested in regulating prostitution, not eradicating it, in spite of their general contempt for women who became prostitutes. They adopted the idea of state-controlled brothels, or lupinar (house of she-wolves) but it wasn't until the time of the Emperor Augustus that a set of codes governed the behavior, restrictions and privileges of prostitutes. They were forbidden to cover their faces in public, forbidden to wear the color purple, to wear shoes or to put their hair in fillets. They were also required to dye their hair red or yellow. ...
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    Author: * Arrius Flavius - 13 Posts on this thread out of 105 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Jul 27, 2006 - 22:48

    Arrius always came back here when things got to be too much for him. The incident with Livia Scipio had left him feeling drained. Here he could recharge himself. Being the owner everyone scrambled whenever it was known that he was on the premises. The bowing and the fawning was ridiculous but he put up with it. He wanted Marnika, the girl from Ethiopia. He needed to be with one of his own race. When he found her she was getting ready to entertain a new client. Arrius convinced him to find another girl. The man could hardly refuse an offer to have two girls at the same time for the price of one.


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