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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 650359" data-attributes="member: 8394">Have you posted the campaign specific information yet?  If so I missed it.All the gender role debate has made me realize that basing a religious kind of prostitution, in a fantasy campaign, on something from the real world (like the Sumerian practice) might be a bad idea.  I mean, these practices were a part of a society VERY different than your typical fantasy region.  In my games, anyway, people tend to be more or less 'enlightened,' if you will, to the idea of sexual equality.In an 'enlightened' society, prostitution (like stripping) is for many a kind of sexual freedom (there are always people who just need the money, whether for legitimate reasons, or to support drug addictions, etc. too), a way of making a living (doing something you like) off of your sexuality, like you might your intellect or skill in a particular craft or trade.What I'm getting at is, if I were going to use prostitutes in a fantasy campaign, I think I'd make them feminists, serving a goddess big on sexual freedom.  It would be a very orgiastic thing.  Dionysian even.  They would be intelligent, liberated women, not women required by custom to become or sold into slavery as prostitutes.  Having such a priestess as an important NPC or even a PC could make for all kinds of interesting roleplaying situations, as they would certainly practice on the adventuring road as they did in the temple.  Now that I think of it that would make her sort of like the Companion girl on the show Firefly.  It can be difficult for traditional men to deal with women who think this way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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