Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient RomeThis is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality while shedding light on important questions concerning marginal groups, marriage, sexual behavior, the family, slavery, and citizen status, particularly that of women. |
Contents
Public Policy and Private | 1 |
Juristic Interpretation | 3 |
Chapter | 6 |
The Statute | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 2 |
The Adultera as Prostitute | 3 |
Theft and Wrongful Appropriation of Slave Prostitutes | 5 |
The Petitio Hereditatis Compromissum and Operae | 6 |
Iniuria | 7 |
The Lex Iulia et Papia | 207 |
Elite | 539 |
Chapter 8 | 8 |
Taxing Prostitution | 1 |
The Evidence for Caligulas Introduction of | 2 |
Lenocinium | 4 |
Exemptions | 5 |
Pimps Prostitutes and the Ius Occidendi | 6 |
Social Policy and the Lex Iulia on Adultery Emperors Jurists and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis | 7 |
Humanitas and Policy | 8 |
Pimps as Roman Citizens | 1 |
Subsequent Legislation | 2 |
Juristic Interpretation | 3 |
The Law on Adultery and the Policymaking | 4 |
Marriage with Practitioners of Prostitution | 3 |
Methods of Collection | 4 |
The Rate of the | 5 |
Criticism of the | 6 |
Fictional Criticism and Later History of the | 7 |
Egypt and Palmyra | 8 |
Profitability Legitimacy and Social Control | 9 |
Emperors Jurists and the Lex Iulia et Papia | 1 |
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