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These stood just outside the town walls, which can be seen to the left on the road leading to the Porta Marina Gate, and possibly near a canal port, which is suggested by the mooring rings set in stone blocks. The baths are laid out on three levels and are now visible in all their former glory thanks to recent restoration work. The baths complex was not actually very big and was probably used by people coming from outside the town. The entrance hall stood on a terrace with colonnade which could be reached by a flight of stairs. All the rooms in the complex had window looking out over the Gulf of Naples and were laid out according to the classic criteria for the bath ... continue

(Apic. exc. 17) Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked and prepared big shrimps
• 1 tsp green pepper
• 1 tblsp Privet
• 1/2 tsp ground celery seeds
• 2-3 tblsp vinegar
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 1/2 tsp salt)
• 4-5 hacked hard-boiled egg yolks

Instructions:
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Cook shrimps. Then mesh ground pepper, celery seeds and privet. Pour vinegar, Liquamen and egg yolks over it and mix thoroughly. Pour the mixture over the shrimps and serve.

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.