Last summer, my beautiful wife, Judie, indulged me by allowing us to visit the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. We spent the better part of a day touring the 2,000-year-old ruins of one of the largest baths in Rome. In its heyday, the Baths of Caracalla could accommodate more than 60,000 people.
Retired PM Editor Jim Olsztynski used to like to write about the debauchery that occurred in these baths. The open orgy environment allowed the people to enjoy themselves while forgetting about the oppressive lives they were living under the Roman Empire. This is a part of plumbing history that PM has been famous for memorializing.