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Given how dangerous child-birth was, there's a something of a tradition going back to at least the Romans of protecting a wife by using prostitutes for base sex
by mobilefriendly 8y ago
Given how dangerous child-birth was, there's a something of a tradition going back to at least the Romans of protecting a wife by using prostitutes for base sex
- watwut 8y agoIt was less dangerous for those prostitutes? The chilbirth and childcare was more disastrous and difficult for them as they were single mothers and breadwinners as a result.
- mirimir 8y agoTrue, but they were considered ~disposable.
- watwut 8y agoYes, and that is why the "both amused and horrified" comment makes perfect sense. Other thing that makes perfect sense is the characterization of it all as "the advice was to subject some of the women to be second class citizens" - yes, in exchange of other women being more protected.
- Farradfahren 8y agoThey where implicit expected to murder the newborns/ abort the embryos. That is why it was a "low" profession and those who worked in it where outcasts.