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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 660224" data-attributes="member: 8394">Re: Coming in lateWe've got a good group of people here so I think you're flame safe <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To say there were no temple 'prostitutes' though is to make sort of the same mistake you are trying to warn against by subscribing to a too narrow definition of 'prostitution,' which, aside from its connotation, means simply sex for hire.&nbsp; They may be priestesses but they're getting paid to get down.&nbsp; That is prostitution.Also, as regards the origin of the practice in Mesopotamia, the sex was not 'sacramental.'&nbsp; It was not looked down on like it would be now, as there were goddesses (like in pretty much all polytheistic religions) who were, in effect, divine prostitutes; still, it wasn't exactly a religious experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 660224, member: 8394"] [b]Re: Coming in late[/b] We've got a good group of people here so I think you're flame safe :) To say there were no temple 'prostitutes' though is to make sort of the same mistake you are trying to warn against by subscribing to a too narrow definition of 'prostitution,' which, aside from its connotation, means simply sex for hire. They may be priestesses but they're getting paid to get down. That is prostitution. Also, as regards the origin of the practice in Mesopotamia, the sex was not 'sacramental.' It was not looked down on like it would be now, as there were goddesses (like in pretty much all polytheistic religions) who were, in effect, divine prostitutes; still, it wasn't exactly a religious experience. [/QUOTE]

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