They came for the whoo-houses. Pompei was chock-full of them.
Yep highly likely
I visited Pompeii last week. The Romans weren’t shy about sex. An erect penis was often a prominent decoration in front of houses. A penis with the tip pointing to the brothel were carved into the stones of the street to guide men to the establishment. . As far as I can tell there was only one brothel in Pompeii. There is an erect penis jutting from the wall above the door of the brothel. When the volcano was finished enough material was spewed from the volcano that the beach was about 2 kilometers from the city. There was another Roman town on the other side of Vesuvius called Herculaneum. The two cites suffered different out comes. Reading about the different out comes is fascinating.