The Origin of Prostitutes

Nowadays, prostitutes are seen as a very filthy and second-class occupation. By definition, prostitute means women had sexual relationship with different men in exchange for money. However, in past times, prostitution was a sacred occupation and usually worked for the religious purposes.


Back In the 5th B.C, when King Hammurabi was in power, there were many priestesses served in the temple. They worked as servants between the god and the prayers. It was said the women in Babylon should go to the temple once in their lifetime, sit there, and waited until a man was willing to give her money and take her home, otherwise she couldn’t do home. After that night, this woman would be seen as a whole woman, and she had finished her duty to the goddess.


For the eastern society, prostitutes are said to emerge for the similar reason. As we all know, the Yin Shang people were very superstitious, so there were also many witches serve in the temples. However, there no evidence to prove the witches in the Yin Shang temples had sexual relationships with many different men.


The prime minister in ancient china set up the system of prostitutes for many reasons.


The first reason is to increase the income of the country. He made a law called “flower tax,” which means men should pay extra money as a tax for the country.


The second reason is to soothe the conflict of the society. It was to solve the problem of men’s “sexual” problem, on the other hand was to solve the problem of arrangement of too many female war prisoners.


The third reason was to attract talented people since they were often unconventional and uninhibited, so when these people came to their places, they would serve them with wine and girls.


The last reason was to entertain the emperor because the emperor at the time was very lust for women. Once he was tired of his wives, he would came to the brothel to have some fun.


This country began to thrive after the set up of the prostitute system. There was an old Chinese going”the plan of the beauties” may came from this incident!



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by Ruth