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Motdakasha has a point but I'm not sure it is accurate... Technically for prostitution to occur you don't need the exchange of currency.
Goods and services in exchange for sex work just as well. For example, I could go fishing and have some surplus fish... I could give Motdakasha some fish for sex. She gets fed and I get some sex.
Of course if you go back far enough you could even say, protection is a service. I will protect and keep you alive in return for you sexual services...
All of this said, the reason I've always thought of prostitution as the oldest profession is that for the most part people didn't pay for things like food and shelter. There was much more communalism (tribalism if you will).
The first "marriages" were (in my mind) not about love but about who you could support. If you were injured or could no longer support you "spouse" she would move on to those who could provide for her.
Technically a "business" arrangement. Sex and breeding for protection, food and shelter.
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