I do not agree it is what people normally think and say it is- namely prostitution.
What is your take on it ?
What do you think is the oldest profession on earth ? Please give your logic or reason for it to make it more meaningful.
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hunting and gathering
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shepherding (for prophet)
sculpting for idolatry (common people)
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Parenthood.
We are talking about paid professions.
Parenthood not not paid and mostly a thankless job. No ?
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We are talking about paid professions. Parenthood not not paid and mostly a thankless job. No ?
well in olden days people exchange goods (2 sack of rice for one wheat etc). i think the idea of paying for services emerge lill late when history was written (in Egyptian times, and then greek i mean)
i cant really comment on prehistoric times.
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I do not agree it is what people normally think and say it is- namely prostitution.
Pls give us some reasons for why you don't think that prostitution is the oldest profession.
I think it makes perfect sense.
Initially people may be doing everything themselves. They'll hunt and they'll cook and they'll get leaves etc to cover their privates. But when it came to sexual pleasure, they need a partner. Some lady may have said "if you want to have sex with me, bring me some food, because I am hungry". Viola! Prostitution is born. Oldest Profession.
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We are talking about paid professions. Parenthood not not paid and mostly a thankless job. No ?
There was no mention of pay or thanklessness with jobs in the initial post.
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***DENTIST............................:biggthumb
The tools were quite crude though............:)
However Hair dresser or like they say back home .......A Naee would be earlier.
Or even Wet Nurse would also be one of the early ones too!
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Pls give us some reasons for why you don't think that prostitution is the oldest profession.
I think it makes perfect sense.
Initially people may be doing everything themselves. They'll hunt and they'll cook and they'll get leaves etc to cover their privates. But when it came to sexual pleasure, they need a partner. Some lady may have said "if you want to have sex with me, bring me some food, because I am hungry". Viola! Prostitution is born. Oldest Profession.
I like the way you think . Very primitive.
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^ All of you are trying too hard. :) Before hair, before teeth, and especially before wet nurse, came... sex. Its a no-brainer.
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I do not agree it is what people normally think and say it is- namely prostitution..
Can't be, because money wasn't invented back then.
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^ What has money (especially printed bank notes) got to do with this. You can pay for services in kind. A coconut. leg roast of a deer. An orange. A pale of water.
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^ What has money (especially printed bank notes) got to do with this. You can pay for services in kind. A coconut. leg roast of a deer. An orange. A pale of water.
Again I like the way you think.
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isnt that how the concept of shadi was born 
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Logic dictates that marriage and fidelity must be a later concept. They are part of a refined civic society. We are talking earlier human beings.
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^ All of you are trying too hard. :) Before hair, before teeth, and especially before wet nurse, came... sex. Its a no-brainer.
***According to our religious tradition Baba Adam and Amma Hawa (ES) lived more than 1000 years.
You think after having been thrown out of Bahisht they would let their Children or grand children get into Prostitution while they were still alive...............:(
NO WAY.............NADA!
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possibly their great grandchildren.
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I think it’s agriculture…
Afterall, wasn’t Adam appointed by God to tend the garden of Eden… and later he was sent out of the garden to earth and asked to till the ground ??
“There is no ancient gentlemen, but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.” – Hamlet
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^ What has money (especially printed bank notes) got to do with this. You can pay for services in kind. A coconut. leg roast of a deer. An orange. A pale of water.
lol
you can find new ways to do business.
coconut for coconuts.
Leg for legs.
hehehe