Courtship?

[southernphotini]

Prostitution was allowed in ancient Rome, even in many patriarchal societies. Women were not caged by their Fathers.
So women always had some degree of freedom.

Well, the prostitutes in Rome likely didn’t have fathers in their lives.

Women from the Equestrian, wealthy Plebian, and Patrician classes were effectively caged.

Prostitution was far more common in Greco-Roman and other pagan cultures than in the Jewish and Arab cultures. In the nomadic Bedouin-style culture they sprang from prostitution was a thing of pagan cities and not of their people.

 

[steve]

Prostitution was allowed in ancient Rome, even in many patriarchal societies. Women were not caged by their Fathers.
So women always had some degree of freedom.

Somehow, I never would have equated prostitution with freedom.

 

[southernphotini]

Somehow, I never would have equated prostitution with freedom.

Being sold to a public temple is straight up slavery.

Christ, and St Paul, liberated women.

 

[rockfox]

Prostitution was allowed in ancient Rome, even in many patriarchal societies. Women were not caged by their Fathers.
So women always had some degree of freedom.

Not in ancient Israel.

If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

If a priest's daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

The sexual liberation of women in the 20th century was a great evil and the great depravity we see today is the direct result of that.