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The oldest profession is prostitution. You can find references to it in ancient greek writings, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetaira https://en.w
by axilmar 8y ago
The oldest profession is prostitution. You can find references to it in ancient greek writings, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetaira https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetaira
- watwut 8y agoThey had other professions too. It does not proof it is the oldest one.
- a_silly_name 8y ago"Prostitution is the oldest profession" is a common saying, but not to be taken literally. Should be read more a sardonic acknowledgement of how innately transactional sex can be, and how the line between 'transactional sex' and 'not transactional sex' can be very, very blurry. Especially in horrific pre-historical survival scenarios. Hence the saying.
- watwut 8y agoI don't see where that expression brings in anything blurry. It just says that it is old thing. Transnational sex is kind of new concept, I dont think all cultures cared about difference in these terms. Marriage was transactional to large degree and ok, true love out of marriage was bad. > Especially in horrific pre-historical survival scenarios. Hence the saying. Prostitution and rape are not the same, really. Prostitution or sex for survival happened much more lately (Victorian era, any time with lack of resources, any time with lack of men, wars, world wars).
- a_silly_name 8y agoMy goodness, I certainly wasn't referring to rape (!). I was referring to transactional sex, and the vagueness of the definition of the phrase. I don't really understand your comment. 'Transactional sex' can be both a new concept, and a thing that happened before the phrase was coined.
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- Shorel 8y agoIt seems moneylender is an even older one, if the book "Debt: the first 5000 years" has accurate enough information.
- radiantswirl 8y agoIt’s way older than Ancient Greece dude. Google “monkey prostitution”: As soon as monkeys learn the concept of money the very first transaction they engage in is a prostitution transaction.