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Pompeii has a reputation for lasciviousness and was often a by-word for sex and prostitution but in reality the people were no more promiscuous than other roman towns and cities and the erotic artwork discovered in Pompeii were sources of art, titillation, fertility and lucky charms as well as some being deliberately explicit.
Depictions of Sex
The many phallus symbols embedded in to the walls of walls of the city thoroughfares have been crudely analyzed as clever directional arrows pointing to Brothels or marking the brothels themselves. It is more likely that they symbolized both male dominance and prosperity. For instance the giant phallus found outside a bakery is accompanied by the slogan above it
Good fortune dwells here
