Dupuy's book “Prostitution in Antiquity” is a fundamental work that has absorbed a huge amount of factual material about the development of this social phenomenon in Ancient India and Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece and the Roman Empire. The author talks about prostitution using the entire cultural experience of the Ancient World. The book contains an analysis of religious cults, social conditions, works of art, demography, moral ideas, medical data, regulations and legislative acts, historical personalities. The sacred cult of Lingam and the cult of Venus, the laws of prostitution in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, venereal diseases, Nero and Caligula, unconventional forms of love - this is not a complete list of topics covered in the book, the author of which set out to give a detailed description of the phenomenon of prostitution in the Ancient world , show its complex ethical and aesthetic dialectics. “Unfortunately,” notes Dupuis, “fate wanted that next to the beautiful there was the ugly, next to Venus Urania there was Venus Pandemos, next to love there was prostitution and disease.” He talks about a beautiful and contradictory world, about the youth of humanity, full of passions and brilliant insights. Published by: Dr. E. Dupouy. Prostitution in ancient times and sexual diseases. St. Petersburg, 1907