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From: andyt@kontron.UUCP (Andy Thornton)
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Subject: Re: Sex by numbers (really, prostitution)
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 19:09:59 EDT
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> > ... *Why* are so many people down on prostitutes?? ... 
> > 
> > -  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
> >                                                 NASA-Ames Research Center
> >                                                 Moffett Field, CA
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> >  	USENET:		 {ihnp4,vortex,dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry
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> 
> 	Sorry, I can't resist.  I'm against prostitution because it:
> 
> 	1)  is illegal
> 		Laws are set down for the good of the society, yes?
> 		And, although we have overturned laws (e.g. slavery)
> 		when our society has "seen the light", prostitution
> 		remains illegal.... hmmmmmm
> 	2)  is morally wrong
> 		It's immoral because it is psychologically degrading and
> 		against biblical (gasp!) teachings.  Is there a religion
> 		that supports prostituion?
> 
> 	One note on the "psychologically degrading" comment.  Some claim
> that some people can function normally and lead happy and healthy lives
> in situations where others fail.  Sorry, humans is humans, I respectfully
> disagree with any form of the above claim.
> 
> 
> 				Gypsy  ihnp4!ihuxe!hoff

	Regarding your first comment I have nothing to say because
I have too much to say and so should say nothing.

	As to the second point:
	
	Temple prostitution has been instituted in two religions that
I know of:  (yes, I like colons!)
		The misc. temples of Aphrodite in Ancient Greece.   
	In certain cities there were laws to FORCE all women, after
	they were married, to "contribute" to the temple by one act
	of prostitution.  For the, shall we say, less favored this
	could take months and the women were not allowed out of the
	temple grounds untill the act of worship was *um* consumated.

	I can not remember the exact goddess, but in India there is
	a goddess, again of Sex, that has temple prostitution as an
	act of worship.  

	Orgies, while not strictly prostitution, were common among the
Germanic tribes during the Age of Migration (400 to 1066) untill they
became Christian.  There is one account from an Arab traveller of mass
groupings among the Swedish merchants in Russia around 980 (if I re-
member correctly).

	Andy Thornton