Sound Familiar ?

13 comments

• Dudester

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  13 years ago

  The ancient Romans also loved to display erotic artifacts, with everything from lamps to garden statuary. Pompeii housed 41 places of prostitution and a public brothel in the middle of town, a two-story structure with five cubicles -- sparse tiny, narrow rooms -- on each floor containing erotic frescos. One, recreated at the exhibition, has graffiti on the wall that translates to: "Here I came, I had sex, then I went home." It's discretely tucked away behind other exhibits.
• gk

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  13 years ago

  Venni, vitti, fuckee? Or something like that. Don't quote me on Latin, maybe I'm parodying the wrong phrase.
• mikeya02

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  13 years ago

  I learned about the famous "I came, I saw, I conquered" phrase, never learned about the "I came, I saw, I fucked" phrase. Funny.
• Realist123

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  13 years ago

  "public brothel in the middle of town" Why can't all cities be like this?
• georgmicrodong

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  13 years ago

  ^^^^^ Because most cities don't want to be covered in molten lava and ash... :)
• troop

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  13 years ago

  LOL georg, you gotta figure that pompeii should have learned it's lesson from sodom and gomorrah ;)
• farmerart

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  13 years ago

  Vidi, vici, veni
• sanitago

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  13 years ago

  I read somewhere that the reasons for those frescoes wasn't to "stimulate" the customers, it was because there were so many people passing through the port of Pompeii who didn't speak Latin (and still wanted to get laid) that they put them up so the non-Latin speakers could just pointed to what 'service' they wanted. nice way to add to the bottom line.
• steve229

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  13 years ago

  The HBO series "Rome" and Showtime's "Spartacus" have good depictions of Roman sexual practices.
• spudd

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  13 years ago

  I saw a documentary on Roman brothel. One interesting fact is the prices of services are the same as they are today, accounting for inflation and purchasing power.
• mmdv26

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  13 years ago

  I saw, I paid, I came, I went.
• BaddJack

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  13 years ago

  here is mmdv26's suggestion: Vidi, pensi, veni, exiti.
• farmerart

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  13 years ago

  Jack: exiti ?? Maybe not.