What would you do if your son told you that he wants to be Alipilarius?

To the question that we have all been asked at some time when we were children,

what do you want to be when you grow up? In my day, the answer was firefighter or soccer player.

If when your child is asked this question they answer:ALIPILARIUS, I advise you to try to get that idea out of his head. The alipilarius were the slaves who, in ancient Rome, dedicated themselves to plucking the pubic hair of courtesans or prostitutes.

For the women of Rome, pubic hair was grotesque and they plucked it from adolescence when it began to appear. These hair removers practiced their "profession" in brothels and used various methods:

Tweezers (volsella )
Resin-based depilatory creams (philotrum )

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