The economy of prostitution in the Roman world : a study of social history & the brothel / Thomas A.J. McGinn.
"This book is a study of the evidence for the business of female prostitution in the Roman world during the central part of Rome's history, a period extending from approximately 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. The main focus is on the economics of venal sex, meaning precisely the manner in which it...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Urban renewal. Design of the book ; Brothels in history ; Definitions ; Plan o f the book.
- Basic economics. The enterprise of venal sex ; The milieu of prostitution ; Ownership of brothels ; Operation of brothels ; Prices ; Recruitment ; Prostitution and the Roman economy.
- Zoning shame. Where the boys are ; Bad company ; Christian topography ; Augustinian policy.
- Honor and erotic art. Pornography as representation ; Things seen and heard ; Women and children first.
- The forces of law and order. Vice versus squad ; Constructive policy ; Official business ; "Sex clubs".
- The local demographics of venal sex. Brothels per capita ; Prostitutes per capita ; Sybaris on the Sarno.
- The great Pompeian brothel-gap. Eminent Victorians ; Counting brothels ; Defining brothel ; Cribs ; Adultery and brothels.
- The best of all possible brothels. Out of Pompeii ; The name of the rose ; Love shack.
- The city of Venus. Sex and the city ; Moral geography.
- Leaving Las Vegas.
- Appendices: A catalog of possible brothels at Pompeii ; A catalog of possible cribs at Pompeii ; A catalog of possible prostitutes at Pompeii.