What was so sophisticated about the hookers selling their bodies for sex...on the orders of their pimps?
They degraded:
themselves
the men they screwed
the wives of those husbands they screwed
marriage and
sex.
Sex is SUPPOSED to be something beautiful, IN MARRIAGE, between a husband and wife for pleasure, showing love...and producing children.
How does a prostitute fit in there?
Figure it: Say a prostitute sells her body five times a day, no weekends. That is 25 screws a week, 100 screws a month, 1200 screws a year and 12,000 screws in ten years.
After 12,000 screws, ONLY 10 years, she can hardly be human anymore. She can't get pleasure from it. She sure can't have any respect for herself.
Some people come up with the BALONEY that prostitution is the "oldest profession" in the world. HORSE PUCKEY!
The oldest professions are farmer, fisherman, hunter, cook, warrior, gatherer, healer. Prostitution didn't come into practice until there was SPARE time away from struggling for survival and SPARE money to spend on them. THOSE things didn't happen for a LONG time in human history.
Cloud mountain gingerly steps off her soap box.
Thankew for reading.
The “auto correct “ substituted was for wasn’t. Darned sophisticated contraption!
In general, I would say that you are probably correct, at least as far as an abstract payment would be concerned. However, what would you have called somebody who sold the use of their body for food (because they produced none of their own), a place to sleep safely (because they had nowhere else to go) or for any of the other necessities in ancient times? Simply because there was no "currency" exhanged, doesn't change the fact that men of that time, either before the idea of the institution of marriage or in a society that didn't value such, would have more than enough time during a 24-hour day to take advantage of a woman willing to sell/loan/rent her body in exchange for any of these necessities.
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