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These baths were situated in Via delle Terme at the the very centre of Pompeii, in the building opposite the Temple of Fortuna Augusta. They were built in the first year of the founding of the colony with public funds and were always assiduously frequented by the town authorities. The damage suffered during the earthquake was immediately repaired, and they were in fact the only baths in use at the moment of the eruption in 79 A.D.. Although by no means a large establishment, the Forum bath were nevertheless equipped with all the bathing facilities that a Roman citizen could desire. It were subdivided into men’s and woman’s section, each with their own independent ent ... continue

(Apic. 7, 3, 1) Ingredients:

• 6 grains pepper
• 6 grains lovage (or juniper berries)
• 1 tsp thyme
• Liquamen (3 tblsp soya sauce + 3 tsp anchovy paste)
• 3 tblsp dry wine (like dry Marsala)
• 3 tblsp oil

Instructions:
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Mesh pepper in grain, fresh thyme and lovage seed. Add Liquamen, wine and oil. Emulsionize. Pour the sauce on the liver 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.