Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?

• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pm_me_your_lotto_num@fanaticus.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        they aren’t producing something for someone else

        They are if they’re trading it for sex.

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