You've shed a lot of light on the subject. Some behavioral researchers have observed prostitution in captive non-human primates. Anthropologists have described tribal societies in which pre-marital sex is customary. Typically the boys woo the girls with gifts.
Scholars say it has no parallel in any earlier or non-Western society.
In an urban society, a woman may have a better, or more secure, living from prostitution than from marriage. Still, after ten thousand years, maybe it's time we got used to it. You've shed a lot of light on the subject. Typically the boys woo the girls with gifts. Scholars say it has no parallel in any earlier or non-Western society.