Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?
Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?
Do we really don't have anything older before it that counts as a paid service/job being registered?
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It's not just us humans, chimps trade meat for sex: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimps-behavior-sex-news-animals
Yale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article:
Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.
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ale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article:
That was a fascinating read! Thanks!
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That would make hunting/gathering the oldest profession, so that you have something you can trade for sex.
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It depends on whether you're considering "a profession" to be something that someone does to gain goods/services/"value" from another person, or from nature.
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So a farmer isn't a profession?
If the hunter/gather is trading food for sex, then they are doing to gain services from another person.
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they aren’t producing something for someone else
They are if they're trading it for sex.
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So the two professions would be equally old.
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