Brothel Scenes #3
Frescoes from the lupanare, or brothel, in Pompeii. Prostitutes were women without legal status — presumably effectively or actually slaves — and all their earnings went to the brothel owner, so the amusement or interest aroused by the illustrations has to be tempered with some other, very mixed, feelings. I was interested to see, though, that these little pictures use effectively the same colour-coding-for-gender as is found right the way back to Minoan times and some of the exhibits we saw at Mycenae: men are shown as browner, from all their outdoor labour or macho activity, and women conventionally pale.
All of these photos were taken using ambient light, and so are probably quite artefacty if too closely examined, but at least that's better than the idiots who ignored the abundantly clear "no flash" signs. Perspective was also a bit awkward: these have all been corrected as best I can in the GIMP.
Brothel Scenes #3
Frescoes from the lupanare, or brothel, in Pompeii. Prostitutes were women without legal status — presumably effectively or actually slaves — and all their earnings went to the brothel owner, so the amusement or interest aroused by the illustrations has to be tempered with some other, very mixed, feelings. I was interested to see, though, that these little pictures use effectively the same colour-coding-for-gender as is found right the way back to Minoan times and some of the exhibits we saw at Mycenae: men are shown as browner, from all their outdoor labour or macho activity, and women conventionally pale.
All of these photos were taken using ambient light, and so are probably quite artefacty if too closely examined, but at least that's better than the idiots who ignored the abundantly clear "no flash" signs. Perspective was also a bit awkward: these have all been corrected as best I can in the GIMP.