Sex in Ancient Rome
The Ancients
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Roman Prostitution and the Infarme
There's a class of people called the infarme, which there're suitable sexual partners, but you can't marry them. The professions that come under this banner are things like prostitutes, actors and actresses and gladiators. Prostitution is legal and it's taxed, so they kind of includein public life in that sense. But prostitutes, men who are mising prost s, are unlikely to be of the illete classes, because they have slaves for having sex whips. So eurelit male has no need to visit a prostitute,. He can buy in a very beautiful slave if he wants one. And he's got a household full of slaves and freed women to do
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