Short answers, pulled from the story.
Cicero expressed shock when he discovered that Pompey, a married man of immense power, allowed his mistress Cytheris to sit in the seat reserved for the family matriarch. This incident highlights the complex social standing of certain high-class prostitutes who could influence Roman politics and society.
Prostitutes were classified as infamous persons known as infames which stripped them of many civil rights and protections under Roman law. They could not give evidence in court and freeborn citizens were forbidden from marrying them.
Prices for services ranged between 1 and 25 asses yielding an average daily income of 10 asses before fees due to pimps or brothels. This amount represented about twice the income of a male day-labourer at the time.
Roman brothels called lupanaria or fornix were concentrated in Regio II including the Caelian Hill Suburra and valleys between hills. These areas housed the Great Market cook-shops barber shops executioner offices and barracks for foreign soldiers.
The month of April was sacred to Venus divine patron of sex love and prostitutes creating unique intersections between religion and sex work. On the first day of the month women worshipped Fortuna Virilis and Venus Verticordia conjointly at the Veneralia festival while on the 23rd of April prostitutes gave cult to Venus Erycina.