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Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum

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room just underneath where the paintings of numbered boxes are. There are some holes in the rear and right wall where brackets that held the shelves could have been. It is thought that these boxes that were sitting on this wooden shelf under these paintings would have been where people attending the baths would have put their clothes after they had undressed in this room. The only remains of the boxes themselves are metal straps. In the wall paintings of the boxes an "X" shape at the front of the boxes indicates where the straps were. The wall painting also shows the wooden shelf underneath the boxes.
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Sex between two females and two males. On the right are two females and the figure furthest to the right has raised their legs around the person next to them. On the left is anal sex between two males.Fragment of a terracotta vessel. Stamped with the name Vitalis. Vorarlberg museum, Austria. 65 - 80
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is depicted standing rigidly, usually trapped with a mantle and holding her right arm across her chest. She is most commonly depicted in places that would be seen by many people, possible to demonstrate a house's patron goddess or for protection as this form of Venus has special religious and ritual
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Ancient Roman Spintria Tokens that are speculated to have been used as locker tokens in the dressing room of the suburban baths. On one side of the tokens is an image of a sexual scene and on the other side is a numeral. Found in Rome. Dates of production are around 22 to 79 CE. Hunterian Museum and
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Spintria tokens have a numeral on one side and an image of a sexual scene on the other. It is speculated that the sexual scenes and numerals on the tokens related to the wall paintings of sexual scenes and numerals in the dressing room. When the token was given to a person it then gave them access
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Each wall painting of a sexual scene has a painting just below it of a box with a number on it. It is thought that there were actual boxes that were placed under these paintings. These boxes would have been placed on a wooden shelf. This wooden shelf would have run along two walls of this dressing
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The function of the wall paintings is not yet clear: some authors say that they indicate that the services of prostitutes were available on the upper floor of the bathhouse and could be a sort of advertising, while others prefer the hypothesis that their only purpose was to decorate the walls with
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Prostitution was overwhelmingly an urban creation. Within the brothel, it is said prostitutes worked in a small room usually with an entrance marked by a patchwork curtain. Sometimes, the woman's name and price was placed above her door. Sex was generally the cheapest in Pompeii, compared to other
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Prostitution was relatively inexpensive for the Roman male, but it is important to note that even a low priced prostitute earned more than three times the wages of an unskilled urban labourer. However, it was unlikely a freed woman would enter the profession in hopes for wealth because most women
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Drawing by César Famin of a Roman fresco from the Osteria della Via di Mercurio in Pompeii. It is thought that the fresco showed the two people above two lines and these two lines were shadows. It is thought that in this drawing the two lines have been drawn as tightropes that the two people are
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of the House of Mars and Venus, is believed to model the proper family roles of husband and wife for those entering the home. Mars and Venus, a popular couple from mythology, were represented in many houses' tablinum for this reason. Venus has appeared in Pompeian artwork at least 197 times, the
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These eight paintings are located above paintings of numbered boxes sitting on a shelf. These wall paintings were found in 1986 when the room was first excavated. The paintings are dated to 62 to 79 CE. The building that the baths are in is two stories with the baths taking up the ground floor.
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It is unclear whether the images on the walls were advertisements for the services offered, or if they were merely intended to heighten the pleasure of the visitors. As previously mentioned, some of the paintings and frescoes became immediately famous because they represented erotic, sometimes
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in Pompeii is from a small cubicle leading off from the kitchen. It is thought the statue used to be placed in the garden and was used as a fountain. A hole runs through its phallus allowing it to spurt like a fountain. Also in this room where the statue was located were erotic paintings.
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with his wife and daughter, he was embarrassed by the erotic artwork and ordered it to be locked away in a "secret cabinet", accessible only to "people of mature age and respected morals". Re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly 100 years, the
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A winged female figure straddling a sleeping male with an erection in a rustic landscape.The winged figure may be a siren while the sleeping figure may be a shepherd. The winged figure also has bird feet. Relief. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2nd century
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A rhyton in the shape of a phallus. In relief on the outside of the rhyton is sex between a female and a male. Found in the necropolis of Les Corts near the roman city of Empúries. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, Empúries, Girona. 1st century
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majority of these depictions located in a home's reception area where a guest would not need an invitation to enter, although she also appears on tavern signs and political banners. Previous scholarship assumed Venus would be more common in
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explains, even the older reproduction below was locked away "out of prudishness" and only opened on request) and only rediscovered in 1998 due to rainfall. The Romans believed that he was a talisman protecting the riches of the house.
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In Ostia Antica in the House of the Painted Vaults there are two wall paintings of sexual scenes in one room. It is speculated that in this room there was once six to eight paintings of sex between two people on beds.
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was the divine protector of Pompeii, and featured in many frescoes around the city. The goddess of love, sex, and fertility, Venus was closely associated with eroticism and prostitution in ancient Rome. The mural of
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Above the two figures on a bed is an image inside a wooden shutter or pinax. This image shows a sexual scene between two people. Bronze mirror cover. Found on the Esquiline Hill. Capitoline Museums, Rome. 70 - 90
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Another idea is that both the paintings of sexual scenes and the paintings of boxes with numerals on them were related to the use of spintria tokens that gave people access to a locker in the dressing room.
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Sex between a female and a male.The figure on the left has a garland of rose petals around their head. The figure to the right is wearing a strophium which is a kind of bra or bikini top. Pompeii. Around
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was more relaxed than in current Western culture. The creation of erotic art in ancient Rome is thought to have occurred over seven centuries from the first century BCE to the fifth or sixth century CE.
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The dressing room in the suburban baths. It is thought that a wooden shelf may have extended along two of these walls and that on this shelf were placed boxes where bathers could place their clothes.
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A wall in the dressing room in the suburban baths. On this wall there are seven paintings of sexual scenes located above paintings of numbered boxes.An eighth painting is of a nude male. 62 to 79 CE
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A wall painting of a sexual scene on the west wall of a room of the House of the Painted Vaults. Ostia Antica. This photo taken in 1938 soon after excavations began. Fresco. mid-3rd century CE.
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are located near the Marine Gate in Pompeii. In one room, thought to be a dressing room, there are seven wall paintings of sexual scenes and one of a figure with an enlarged scrotum.
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Lacroix P History Of Prostitution Among All The Peoples Of The World From The Most Remote Antiquity To The Present Day Translated From The Original French By Samuel Putnam Vol 3 1926
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It has been commented that "Graffiti from Pompeii, Herculaneum and 2nd century Ostia Antica, often refer to group sex, although none describe the pose of scene VI ."
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Sex between a female and a male. At the right of the image is sex between two males. Arretine Bowl. Terracotta. late 1st century BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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A phallus from a public alleyway in Pompeii that was 2 meteres up the side of a wall. The inscription reads "I shat out this one phallus/prick". Tufa. Painted.
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to a place to put their clothing. Possibly they may have put their clothing inside the box that was sitting on the wooden shelf in the dressing room.
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Sex between Pan and a goat. From the Herculaneum villa of the Papyri. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Marble. 1st century BCE - 1st century CE
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A phallus on the side of a building in Pompeii. Terracotta plaques with images of phalluses were set into the walls on streets in Pompeii.
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Cupid and Psyche. A Roman copy after a Greek statue. The Greek statue is dated to the 2nd century BCE. Marble. Capitoline Museums, Rome
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Lesbian sex scene. The patches of dark green color are remains of the repainting of the wall. Suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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Polyphemus and Galatea kissing. Fresco from a Pompeii sleeping room. Naples National Archaeological Museum. around 50 CE – 79 CE
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Schefold, Karl: Vergessenes Pompeji: Unveröffentlichte Bilder römischer Wanddekorationen in geschichtlicher Folge. München 1962.
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A statuette of Aphrodite with eros. Some of the body decoration is gilt. From Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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Sex between a female and a male.The figure on the left is wearing a strophium which is a kind of bra or bikini top. From the
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An erotic wall painting on the west wall of a small room at the side of the kitchen from The House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
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Cunnilingus, fellatio and anal sex between two females and two males. Wall painting, Suburban baths. Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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declined in their economic status and standard of living due to demands on their appearance as well as their health.
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led to many erotic artefacts from Pompeii being locked away from the public for nearly 200 years. In 1819, when King
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are all similar in structure, suggesting they derive from the same source, though this source has not been found.
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Parker, A. (2017). "Protecting the Troops? Phallic Carvings in the north of Roman Britain". In Parker, A. (ed.).
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Relief of a Phallus on a lava paving stone showing directions to a brothel on the Via dell' Abbondanza. Pompeii.
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West wall painting. Excavation photo. Fresco. House of the Painted Vaults. Ostia Antica. mid-3rd century CE.
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A dancer. Statuette. Bronze. From Civita. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. End of the first century BCE
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South wall painting. Excavation photo. Fresco. House of the Painted Vaults. Ostia Antica. mid-3rd century CE.
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If anyone is looking for some tender love in this town, keep in mind that here all the girls are very friendly
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Nymph and Satyr. Found in a field in Pollena Trocchia. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. 1st century CE
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A nude male with an enlarged scrotum holding a scroll. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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Much of what might strike modern viewers as erotic imagery, such as oversized phalluses, could arguably be
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is typically shown sitting down, holding a fishing rod and is always semi-naked. The depictions of
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A Nymph or Maenad sleeping in a landscape with a Satyr approaching. From Pompeii. Around 50–79 CE.
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Erotic scene on the Nile. Roman fresco on summer triclinium of the House of the Ephebus. Pompeii.
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Bronze tintinabulum; phallus in the form of a winged lion, with suspended chimes. 1st Century BCE
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Looking at Laughter Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.- A.D. 250
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Fresco showing Leda and the swan, from Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples 50–79 CE
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South wall painting. Fresco. House of the Painted Vaults. Ostia Antica. mid-3rd century CE.
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Sex between a female and two males. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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Erotic wall painting, from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. 62 - 79 CE
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Looking at Lovemaking Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C. – A.D. 250
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balancing on. The fresco has since been destroyed. This drawing is dated to 1827.
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Pottery lamp-filler. A second description is of a "terracotta vase". 120 - 70 BCE
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Looking at Lovemaking Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250
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A fresco of Venus and Priapus. Above them is a landscape. House at I. 62 - 79 CE
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Scene VI is a scene of sex between a female and two males in the suburban baths
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An erotic scene on a bed. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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Fresco Depicting Mars and Venus, from the House of Mars and Venus in Pompeii
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Erotic wall painting, from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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Erotic wall painting, from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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Erotic wall painting, from Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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Fresco from the Lupanar brothel, the largest Pompeii brothel. 72 - 79 CE
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began in the 18th century. These digs revealed the cities to be rich in
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from Pompeii may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by
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The ubiquity of such imagery and items indicates that the treatment of
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A sexual scene on a bronze vessel handle. From Pompeii. 1st century CE
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was briefly made accessible at the end of the 1960s (the time of the
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Erotic wall painting. North Wall, House of the Vetti. from Pompeii
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Eros in Pompeii: The Erotic Art Collection of the Museum of Naples
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A second image of the same wall painting. Pompeii. 1st Century CE
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Erotic wall painting East wall. House of the Vetti, from Pompeii
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Fellatio. Wall painting. Suburban baths, Pompeii. 62 to 79 CE
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Erotic wall painting. North wall. Casa del Ristorante. Pompeii
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Erotic wall painting. South wall. Casa del Ristorante. Pompeii
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Erotic wall painting. North wall Casa del Ristorante. Pompeii
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Erotic wall painting. West wall. Casa del Ristorante. Pompeii
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Erotic wall painting, House of the King of Prussia, Pompeii
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Wall paintings from the dressing room in the suburban baths
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parts of the Empire. All services were paid for with cash.
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One of the most curious buildings recovered was in fact, a
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A second image of the wall painting. House at I. 62 - 79 CE
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from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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Erotic Fresco from the Lupanar, Pompeii. 72 - 79 CE
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Erotic Fresco from the Lupanar, Pompeii. 72 - 79 CE
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sexuality in ancient Rome
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Naples National Archaeological Museum
Secret Museum, Naples
sexual revolution
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