Some wall paintings in the Suburban Baths (Terme Suburbane) in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy are an indication of loose morals.
The Suburban Baths were publicly owned and were built in the early empire, possibly under the Emperor Tiberius (14–37 AD), much later than the others and thus were built outside the city walls near the Porta Marina, one of the city gates. The erotic wall paintings in the Suburban Baths are the only set of such art found in a public Roman bath house. Explicit sex scenes (such as group sex and oral sex) are depicted in these paintings that cannot be easily found in collections of erotic Roman art.
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