Why is prostitution said to be the oldest profession in the world? Surely they need a man who already has a job to profit from.
I think the saying goes "Prostitution is one of the oldest professions" not "Prostitution is THE oldest profession"
>>17987248there was bartering
>>17987248only if you consider hunter-gatherer a professiongrugette suck grug dick if grug share berry
The odds are whoring might have been the first specialized trade.
>>17987248That is a very capitalist mindset. There are plenty of 'professions' that precede the development of money or capital or anything like that.
>>17987248It's the 2nd oldest profession
>>17987395No that's espionage
>>17987617Espionage is just catty gossip with a thin veneer of respectability.
Yes, anon, you’re right. For prostitution to exist, there must already be resource accumulation. A trader needs something to trade for sexual services.
>>17987875/thread Can we move on now. We have all acknowledged your insightful observation OP. What else is there to say?
>>17987906Because it is the oldest profession, people were swapping fluids before they were swapping words coherently, meaning there was no value system in place or goods with any value to be traded for the sex. It was always sex in the beginning, as it is today
>>17987248The profession is the service provided, not the client's ability to pay. Your logic is so retarded it implies the world's first carpenter didn't exist until someone else first carved a bowl to pay him with.
>>17988391The first carpenter got paid in pussy.>they called him the woodman
