Stop 7 of 11
The Lupanar
The town's purpose-built brothel, and what its walls tell us.
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Where the two lanes meet stands a small two-storey building: the Lupanar, Pompeii's best-known brothel. The name comes from lupa, she-wolf, Roman slang for a prostitute. Sex was sold in many places in town, in back rooms of inns and in single rooms off side streets. But this is the only building we're sure was built for it.
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