The myth of sacred prostitution in antiquity / Stephanie Lynn Budin.

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 from the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the early...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Budin, Stephanie Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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