Was paying for sex normal in the ancient times or was it always looked down on?

Was paying for sex normal in the ancient times or was it always looked down on?

what prostitution? Yes it was normal in multiple cultures.


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Interestingly enough Shia Islam still promotes one night marriage stands in Shia territories, while Sunnis have long abandoned the practice that Muhammad gave.

Yes, prostitution has been quite prominent in human history and in the Anglosphere it only became a shame under the Victorian era and even with that it was only frowned upon amongst the upper class.

it's called the oldest profession for obvious reasons

I wouldn't say that it was a shame as much as it was taboo to talk about it in polite company. The victorians fucked around with loads of decadent shit.

Prostitution has been considered wrong ever since it was first practiced in Ur. There are Sumerian cuneiform texts from that city decrying the new practice. It's common sense to view the practice as a vice.

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Prostitution has been tolerated in many cultures but rarely accepted, and then only for religious reasons, such as sacred prostitution in pagan Europe, or Japanese Imperial concubinage. I doubt any society has ever seriously tried to totally stamp out the practice simply because there have always been worse things to worry about. It's just a vice.

The Victorians drew their morality from the Bible, which is an ancient text from another culture that has some choice words for prostitution.

Brothels are quite a usual institution in cities like pompej. I think they were marked with a sign bearing cock-and-balls. So at least for Romans around the Vesuvus outbreak it was normal.

Nah it was far more common to pay the guy to have sex with your daughter. That's why dowry exists.

>There are Sumerian cuneiform texts from that city decrying the new practice.
>new
Further information would be appreciated.

its called the oldest profession in the world for a reason

smart user

rest of the muppets parroting yeeess yees prostitution a cool have no clue

Sex matters to women because it gives them pleasure (women are build for pleasure) and can be the beginning of a good relation with a provider

Sex matters to men because they compete for them [which is why they despise whores, since whores value each man equally], but more importantly, their pathetic orgasms make them believe they are relevant to reality during one instant. For men, Sex is an existential solution, which is why they praise whores, because the whore makes them cum during a few seconds.
But men are not build for pleasure and they equally need the competition with ''non whorish women'', which is why men think the dichotomy ''saint/pure/virgin and whore/slut''.

men always blame virgin girls for bad sex. men expected a virgin girl to be a whore somehow and they always always refuse to understand that a virgin girl is just a virgin.
Very few men are good in bed, with whatever women, and even fewer men can take a virgin girl properly. The best part is that men refuse to understand that they are the bad guy in this situation.
this is how betas work. Betas love the idea of virgin, but they need whore sin bed, precisely because they need their little orgasm and become furious if they do not get it.

I read it years ago. Some priest was complaining about how degenerate and decadent Ur society was with prostitutes and transvestites offering sexual services out in the street even though he knew the goddess Inanna had taught men these things as part of the idea of civilization she had stolen from the gods.

It's kind of hard to be a professional in a society that doesn't have a division of labour. Farmers came before prostitutes. What would you sell your ass for in a hunter gatherer society? There's no property except what you're wearing, no money. Giving up the puss for food and a warm tent to sleep in doesn't make you a prostitute. It makes you a wife.

many men fail to understand that prostitution when the woman chooses her lovers is not called prostitution but dating. And when she chooses to be fucked by a man who is not to her standards, it is called rape.

I can hear your arm fat wobbling from here.

It was only looked down upon if you were already married.

Otherwise it was a normie thing.

Daily reminder Muslims, Christians, and Anglos ruined this.

>Daily reminder Muslimsruined this.

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I would not be interested in reading your exegesis of the Pentateuch.

Reminder that in medieval England church ran brothels though they had numerous restrictions. Like no business on Sundays and other holidays so people actually went to church.

having sex outside marriage was looked down upon in general

dudes had harems and concubines tho

Your Gender Studies Professor called.

She said to stop copying and pasting her lesson plans on Veeky Forums.