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Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. She reconsiders the evidence from the ancient Near East, Greco-Roman texts, and early Christian authors.Budin, Stephanie Lynn is the author of 'Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521880909 and ISBN 0521880904.
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