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Sacred prostitution

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, cult prostitution, and religious prostitution are purported rites consisting of paid intercourse performed in the context of religious worship, possibly as a form of fertility rite or divine marriage (hieros gamos). Scholars prefer the terms "sacred sex" or "sacred sexual rites" in cases where payment for…

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related to Modern views · 23
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related to Recent Western occurrences · 22
Sacred prostitution → AIDS, Among, April, California, Children, Church Of The Most, Flirty Fishing, God, High Goddess, High Priestess, In, In Ventura County, Local, Mary Ellen Tracy, Neopagan, Sexual, STDs, The Family, They, Tracys
related to Phoenicia · 18
Sacred prostitution → Adonis, Afqa, Astarte, At, Atargatis, Baalbek, Byblos, Dura-Europos, Etruscan, Heliopolis, It, Lucilius's, Palmyra, Phoenicians, Pyrgi, Pyrgi's, Similarly, Syrian
related to Further reading · 17
Sacred prostitution → Altertum, Antiquity, Berlin, Brief Study, Facts, Fakten, Fiktionen, ISBN, Kelley, Oikumene, ResearchGate, Rickard, Scheer, Tanja, Tempelprostitution, Temple, Verlag Antike
related to Ancient Near East · 15
Sacred prostitution → Ancient Near Eastern, Babylonia, BCE, Budin, Cyprus, Daniel Arnaud, Euphrates, Hellenistic Period, Herodotus's, Julia Assante, Late Antiquity, Near East, Stephanie Budin, The, Tigris
related to Hellenistic world · 14
Sacred prostitution → Antiochus IV Epiphanes, BC, Cappadocia, Cyprus, Greek-influenced, Greek-settled, Hellenised, Hellenistic, In, Kingdom, Maccabees, Pontus, Second Temple, Sicily
related to Mexica · 12
Sacred prostitution → Bernardino, He, Maya, Mesoamerica, Mexica, Sahagún, The Aztec, The Franciscan Spanish Friar, This, Toltec, Xochiquetzal, Xōchipilli
related to External links · 9
Sacred prostitution → Ancient Israel, Archived, December, Deuteronomy, Johanna, Sacred Prostitutes, Stuckey, Wayback Machine MatriFocus, Younes
related to Japan · 5
Sacred prostitution → During, However, Kamakura, Some, While
related to Definitions · 4
Sacred prostitution → Budin, Classical, Historian Stephanie Budin, Sacred

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prostitution sacred temple prostitutes aphrodite sexual within also sex ancient goddess temples women religious practice rites would prostitute many act

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Sacred prostitutionis asale of a person’s body for sexual purposes where some portion0.90text
dowry-sexual riteinstance ofwith variants0.80text
or as public defloration of a brideinstance ofwith variants0.80text
basaviinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
and involves dedicating pre-pubescentinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
young adolescent girls from villages in a ritual marriage to a Hindu deity or a Hindu templeinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
who then work in the templeinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
function as spiritual guidesinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
dancersinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
and prostitutes servicing male devotees in the templeinstance ofwith similar customary forms0.80text
Sacred prostitutionrelated to Ancient Near EastAncient Near Eastern0.60section
Sacred prostitutionrelated to Ancient Near EastTigris0.60section

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