How old is the "world's oldest profession"?

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• deft@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No idea. Ask your mother?

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  • adhdsergio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oof size >>>>>>

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• wador@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some people jokingly say that prostitution is the oldest profession. I don’t know about that, but transactional sex must be as old as humanity.

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  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably even older considering that it also exists in other apes species.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And certainly that would not count as a profession because that labor is not specialized.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There have even been observations of transactional sex in the animal kingdom. Primarily among primates and birds.

    So it may actually predate humanity.

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  • adhdsergio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It has been observed with certain species of monkeys, that should give you an indication 😄

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i was reading a history of aboriginal tribes in Australia and they said the tribes regularly met for socailsing, to sort out petty grievances and to trade including the women, who used the opportunity to “trade” genetic diversity. The book seem’d to suggest this was both necessary (as in part of the trade) and at the women’s discretion of cock choice.

    Difficult to say if this occured for the 60,000 years or so the’d been in Australia but can’t see why not ?

    sont know if that’s really prostitution, all seems blurred to me.

    pity we’re no longer as sophisticated :(

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since 2400 BC.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Certainly there were other professions before 2400 BC

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but are those professions still around?

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty old. At least twelve years.

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ಠ_ಠ

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s hard to say, because what counts as a profession? Do you need specialization of labor? Or money?

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