thinking about a thing wrote about how (i may be mangling this) prohibitions against sex work in ancient cultures may have been about preventing people from being confused about the true source of production and it's really stuck with me
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Do you have a link to the writing?
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don't think it's public unfortunately, maybe DM ben?
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @xnorcraft and @acidshill
Sacred prostitution seems closely related. The Babylonian custom seems to have been specifically enacted to prevent total paternity certainty of firstborns, though it rejected female mate choice as well.
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Replying to @Jenlky and @acidshill
I agree that societal norms are often in conflict with female mate choice. The main alternative in practice seems to be mate choice via male conflict over territory, sometimes narratized as (and not entirely decoupled from) inequality in economic production.
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