The Topkapi Palace Harem<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\nBoth women and children engaged in prostitution in ancient Greece. The Greek word for a prostitute is porne<\/em> , derived from the verb pernemi<\/em> meaning to sell. The English word pornography, and its corollaries in other languages, derive directly from the Greek word porne<\/em> .<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe p\u00f3rnai<\/em> were usually female slaves owned by a pimp. This owner could be a citizen and also a metic, for whom that business was a source of income like any other and for which he had to pay a tax proportional to the profits it generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn classical times, the p\u00f3rnai<\/em> are slaves of barbarian origin; From the Hellenistic period, many young slaves joined the guild, who would only cease to be slaves when they were adopted by their master. His work took place in brothels, generally in neighborhoods known for this activity, such as Piraeus, which was the port of Athens, or the Ceramic of Athens. They are frequented by sailors and poor citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIndependent prostitutes worked directly on the street. These prostitutes are of diverse origins: meteca women who cannot find another job in the city of arrival, poor widows, former pornai<\/em> who have managed to become independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn Athens, they had to be registered and pay a tax. Musicians and dancers who officiate at men’s banquets can also be included in this category. Aristotle, in the Constitution of the Athenians<\/em> , mentions among the specific attributions of ten magistrates that they had the charge of ensuring that \u00abflute, lyre and zither instrumentalists are not rented for more than two drachmas per night\u00bb; It is thus clear that sexual services were clearly part of the rent, the price of which, despite the control practiced by the astynomes<\/em> , tends to be higher the more time passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHeteras constitute the highest category among prostitutes. Unlike the others, they do not only offer sexual services and their benefits are not punctual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prostitutes can be independent and sometimes influential women. They were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some prostitutes in ancient Greece, such as Lais of Corinth, were as famous for their company as their beauty, and some of these women charged extraordinary sums for their services. She was known as the most beautiful woman in the entire region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSolon instituted the first of the Athenian brothels in the 6th century BC. C, and with the profits from this business he built a temple dedicated to Aphrodite Pandemos, goddess of sexual pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the island of Cyprus and in Corinth, a type of sacred prostitution was practiced, where the temple had more than a thousand prostitutes, according to Strabo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Greece in general, we see three categories of prostitution<\/strong> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n1 Chamaitypa`i<\/strong> \u2013 those who worked abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2 Gephyrides<\/strong> \u2013 those who worked near bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3 Perepatetikes<\/strong> \u2013 those who worked in the streets, where they found their clients and then went to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the case of male prostitution<\/strong> , this work was mainly done by teenage men ,<\/strong> who did it in Athenian brothels. However, they used to be slaves<\/strong> because free men could lose their rights if they did so in adulthood. However, homosexuality was not prohibited, only doing it for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the fifth century, Athenaeus informs us that the price was one obolus, one-sixth of a drachma, which was the equivalent of an ordinary worker’s salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vikings and their sexuality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Both in Ancient Rome and in Ancient Greece, sexual freedom allowed this subject not to be taken as a taboo, but with total naturalness. They were much more evolved civilizations than ours, understanding sexuality in all its senses<\/strong> , including homosexuality, since the human body was revered as beauty, regardless of being a man or a woman, and we can appreciate that in the art of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn this period both young women and men engaged in prostitution<\/strong> and all could become totally independent and free, but it was necessary for them to wear different clothing from the rest ,<\/strong> as it was also mandatory for them to pay taxes, something not discriminatory but an obligation of the workers. .<\/p>\n\n\n\nBoth the city of Corinth and the island of Cyprus<\/strong> were not far behind and thanks to Strabo we know that there was a certain religious prostitution<\/strong> in the temples and according to his texts, there were more than 1,000 prostitutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe offering to the divinities in the form of women-prostitutes did not reach an extent in Greece comparable to that which existed in the ancient Near East; however, several cases are known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the one hand, within the Greek world itself, there was sacred prostitution in Sicily, in Cyprus, in the kingdom of Pontus or in Cappadocia; on the other hand, there was also one in Corinth, whose temple of Aphrodite housed an important servile troop, at least after classical times. Thus, in 464 a. C., a certain Xenophon, citizen of Corinth and winner of the foot race and the pentathlon at the Olympic Games, dedicated a hundred young women to Aphrodite, as a sign of gratitude, in the temple of the goddess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prostitution has been practiced throughout ancient and modern culture. It has been described as \u201cthe oldest profession in the world\u201d and, despite constant attempts at regulation, it continues almost unchanged. Prostitution is the practice of having sexual relations with other people in exchange for money or other economic benefits. It is exercised mostly by women, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2259,6561,4543],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/thh.jpg?fit=612%2C323&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31715,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711\/revisions\/31715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nazing.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}