0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 13 days agoWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?message-squaremessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-squareWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·12 days agoThat would make hunting/gathering the oldest profession, so that you have something you can trade for sex.
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·12 days agoIt depends on whether you’re considering “a profession” to be something that someone does to gain goods/services/“value” from another person, or from nature.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·12 days agoSo a farmer isn’t a profession? If the hunter/gather is trading food for sex, then they are doing to gain services from another person.
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minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·12 days ago they aren’t producing something for someone else They are if they’re trading it for sex.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoSo the two professions would be equally old.
That would make hunting/gathering the oldest profession, so that you have something you can trade for sex.
It depends on whether you’re considering “a profession” to be something that someone does to gain goods/services/“value” from another person, or from nature.
So a farmer isn’t a profession?
If the hunter/gather is trading food for sex, then they are doing to gain services from another person.
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They are if they’re trading it for sex.
So the two professions would be equally old.