Entrance to the Pompeii brothel
If you visit Pompeii (it's worth it, I assure you!), expect to queue to enter the brothel (the name derives from "she-wolf", in the sense of prostitute):who knows why, the old meeting house of the unfortunate city, it is the place that more than any other arouses the curiosity of tourists.
Yet the spectacle offered is not among the best:the brothel, well preserved in its structure and complete with "red light" wall frescoes, immediately gives the idea of the squalor and the lowest life that was consumed inside it many centuries ago, when girls and women, in exchange for a few pennies, among those walls offered themselves to men looking to please
One of the small rooms inside the brothel of Pompeii; visible the masonry bed
low price.
The building, which is accessed from a narrow alley, consists of two floors , the first for the poorest customers, the second for the wealthiest; the rooms are small and cramped, especially those located on the ground floor, and equipped with built-in beds.
A corridor, a balcony, a tiny latrine and an external staircase complete the modest building.
The paintings on the walls they probably represent the most famous frescoes among all those found in Pompeii, although it is not known exactly if they only performed a decorative function or if instead they constituted a sort of "catalog" with a demonstration of the "services" offered ; subjects and themes, needless to say, are explicitly erotic (or pornographic?), which, after all, would make the second hypothesis quite plausible.