Laws governing Prostitution.--Floralian Games.--Registration of Prostitutes.--Purity of Morals.--Julian Law.--Ædiles.-- Classes of Prostitutes.--Loose Prostitutes.--Various Classes of lewd Women.--Meretrices.--Dancing Girls.--Bawds.--Male Prostitutes.--Houses of Prostitution.--Lupanaria.--Cells of Prostitutes.--Houses of Assignation.--Fornices.--Circus.-- Baths.--Taverns.--Bakers' Shops.--Squares and Thoroughfares.--Habits and Manners of Prostitutes.--Social standing.--Dress.--Rate of Hire.--Virgins in Roman Brothels.--Kept Women.--Roman Poets.--Ovid.--Martial.--Roman Society.--Social Corruption.--Conversation.--Pictures and Sculptures.--Theatricals.--Baths.--Religious Indecencies.-- Marriage Feasts.--Emperors.--Secret Diseases.--Celsus.-- Roman Faculty.--Archiatii. 64 CHAPTER V. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA. Christian Teachers preach Chastity.--Horrible Punishment of Christian Virgins.--Persecution of Women.--Conversion of Prostitutes.--The Gnostics.--The Ascetics.--Conventual Life.--Opinion of the Fathers on Prostitution.--Tax on Prostitutes.--Punishment of Prostitutes under the Greek Emperors. 86 CHAPTER VI. FRANCE.--HISTORY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. Morals in Gaul.--Gynecea.--Capitulary of Charlemagne.--Morals in the Middle Ages.--Edict of 1254.--Decree of 1358, re-establishing Prostitution.--Roi des Ribauds.--Ordinance of Philip abolishing Prostitution.--Sumptuary Laws.--Punishment of Procuresses.--Templars.--The Provinces.--Prohibition in the North.--Licensed Brothels at Toulouse, Montpellier, and Avignon.--Penalties South.--Effect of Chivalry.-- Literature.--Erotic Vocabulary.--Incubes and Succubes.-- Sorcery.--The Sabat.--Flagellants.--Adamites.--Jour des Innocents.--Wedding Ceremonies.--Preachers of the Day. 93 CHAPTER VII. FRANCE.--HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO LOUIS XIII. The Court.--Louis IX. to Charles V.--Charles VI.--Agnes Sorel.--Louis XI.--Charles VIII.--Louis XII.--Francis I.--La Belle Feronniere.--Henry II.--Diana de Poictiers.--Lewd Books and Pictures.--Catharine of Medicis.--Margaret.--Henry IV.-- Mademoiselle de Entragues.--Henry III.--Mignons.--Influence of the Ligue.--Indecency of Dress.--Theatricals.--Ordinance of 1560.--Police Regulations. 108 CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE.--HISTORY FROM LOUIS XIII. TO THE PRESENT DAY.