[ulizzle]

Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution.

Only takes a quick Google search to confirm

[JamesBarney]

I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome