The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin

The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity

Stephanie Lynn Budin

384 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence f...

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