0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agoWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?message-squaremessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-squareWhy is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?0000000000000000000@discuss.tchncs.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·6 months agoThat would make hunting/gathering the oldest profession, so that you have something you can trade for sex.
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months 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-up2arrow-down2·6 months 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-up6·6 months agoSubsistence farming isn’t a profession by that definition because they aren’t producing something for someone else, just themselves.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·6 months ago they aren’t producing something for someone else They are if they’re trading it for sex.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoSo the two professions would be equally old.
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.
So the two professions would be equally old.