0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?message-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarememfree@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s not just us humans, chimps trade meat for sex: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimps-behavior-sex-news-animals Yale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article: Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago ale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article: That was a fascinating read! Thanks!
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThat would make hunting/gathering the oldest profession, so that you have something you can trade for sex.
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year 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-up0·1 year 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.
minus-squarepm_me_your_lotto_num@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoSubsistence farming isn’t a profession by that definition because they aren’t producing something for someone else, just themselves.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago they aren’t producing something for someone else They are if they’re trading it for sex.
It’s not just us humans, chimps trade meat for sex: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimps-behavior-sex-news-animals
Yale taught monkeys about money, and yup, they traded money for sex. From archive of NYT article:
That was a fascinating read! Thanks!
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.
Subsistence farming isn’t a profession by that definition because they aren’t producing something for someone else, just themselves.
They are if they’re trading it for sex.