Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Մարմնավաճառության պատմություն" in Armenian language version.
There was a legal and clear distinction between the common prostitute and the hierodule, who was protected from slander by the same law which guarded the good name of married women.
There are various names for, and different classes of, hierodules, as we learn from the Code of Hammurabi.
prostitution, the practice of engaging in relatively indiscriminate sexual activity, in general with someone who is not a spouse or a friend, in exchange for immediate payment in money or other valuables. Prostitutes may be female or male or transgender, and prostitution may entail heterosexual or homosexual activity, but historically most prostitutes have been women and most clients men.
First, prostitution is work.
traditional views of prostitutes as social misfits, sexual slaves, victims of pimps and drug addiction, and tools of organized crime (Bullough and Bullough 1978; Lerner 1986; Otis 1985; Schur 1984; Tannahill 1980).
COYOTE… The group advocates the legalization of prostitution because it believes that prostitutes’ issues are women’s issues and that no one at that time was publicly addressing those issues, particularly not from the prostitute’s side. The backbone of COYOTE’s stance is that prostitution is a viable profession, that women should be free to choose whatever profession will help them the most economically and that by keeping prostitution legal we will be keeping women safe. Organizations such as COYOTE and the National Task Force on Prostitution hold the belief that women join the profession because of circumstance, and that by improving standard of living women can liberate themselves. This side of the debate still possesses some of the Page/Dillingham/Hotel Street ideology that men are the cause of this profession, that the women are victims unless they are making their own safe choices. The counter argument, held by prostitute organizations such as WHISPER, or Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt, share the belief that men are perpetuating the institution, but believe that just helping women and educating them is not enough. An advocate for WHISPER states that the fact that seventy-five percent of prostitutes have been victims of paternal sexual abuse shows a causal relationship between male hegemony and entrance into the profession. The organization rejects the notions that prostitution provides agency and a means of wealth for women, and place responsibility on men who are in both the «conservative right and the liberal left male hierarchies collude to teach and keep women in prostitution.»
prostitution, the practice of engaging in relatively indiscriminate sexual activity, in general with someone who is not a spouse or a friend, in exchange for immediate payment in money or other valuables. Prostitutes may be female or male or transgender, and prostitution may entail heterosexual or homosexual activity, but historically most prostitutes have been women and most clients men.
COYOTE… The group advocates the legalization of prostitution because it believes that prostitutes’ issues are women’s issues and that no one at that time was publicly addressing those issues, particularly not from the prostitute’s side. The backbone of COYOTE’s stance is that prostitution is a viable profession, that women should be free to choose whatever profession will help them the most economically and that by keeping prostitution legal we will be keeping women safe. Organizations such as COYOTE and the National Task Force on Prostitution hold the belief that women join the profession because of circumstance, and that by improving standard of living women can liberate themselves. This side of the debate still possesses some of the Page/Dillingham/Hotel Street ideology that men are the cause of this profession, that the women are victims unless they are making their own safe choices. The counter argument, held by prostitute organizations such as WHISPER, or Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt, share the belief that men are perpetuating the institution, but believe that just helping women and educating them is not enough. An advocate for WHISPER states that the fact that seventy-five percent of prostitutes have been victims of paternal sexual abuse shows a causal relationship between male hegemony and entrance into the profession. The organization rejects the notions that prostitution provides agency and a means of wealth for women, and place responsibility on men who are in both the «conservative right and the liberal left male hierarchies collude to teach and keep women in prostitution.»
