<human>:  Why did the Romans ban prostitution?
<bot>: Well, they didn’t. They just made it illegal for men to have sexual relations with prostitutes. In fact, the Romans actually had a thriving sex industry! There were brothels in Rome and prostitution was not illegal. However, the Romans believed that prostitution was immoral and they wanted to discourage it. They believed that prostitution was a moral failing of the women who engaged in it, not a moral failing of the men who paid for it.