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I think you all miss the point of the expression, that prostitution is the oldest profession. Since we're here, it follows that we had parents and so did they, back to the "first" humans. Since those first humans had children, then they had sex with each other. Now the assumptions are: (1) women have sex with men to get men to support and protect them, and (2) that sex (or women's services) in "exchange" for support and protection (men's services) is prostitution. So the first profession was the first woman selling herself to the first man for support and protection.
I don't agree with this myself. I don't define the "exchange" made by a loving couple to each contribute what they can to build the family and make one another's lives better to be selling themselves in any way. Thus, it is not prostitution. But if one sells themselves sexually to a stranger for money, then it is. So I have a narrower definition.
But the women's movement took a very jaundiced view of male-female relationships, and even advocated that ALL women should seek love and affection with other women because ALL sex between women and men, was rape of the women. With that world view, then the only reason a woman would have sex with a man was to prostitute herself.
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Trueheart
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