Prostitution: evolution, dilemma and cultural differences - Research Paper Example

Download file to see previous pages...  According to Bhattacharji (32), the earliest mention of prostitution occurs in the most ancient literary work in India, the Rgveda.  Even in the earliest Vedic age, love outside wedlock was a familiar phenomenon and unions promoted by mere lust are mentioned in quite an uninhibited manner.  Prostitution as a profession appears in the literature of a few centuries after the Vedas, although the reality that it must have been common in society much earlier is a big possibility and could have been undocumented due to un-evolved primitive culture (Bhattacharji 32).   Extra-marital love sitting in the Indian literature may have been voluntary and unpaid but there is the possibility of it being regarded by the male partner as a form of service for which he was obliged to pay in some form. It was deemed as a temporary contract then and was not regarded as a profession (Bhattacharji 32) or maybe the awareness of the bargain was not yet coined to the term prostitution. Gradually, out of the abuses of women in India, paved for the rise of the new set of women group either because they could not find suitable husbands, or because of early widowhood, unsatisfactory married life or other social pressures especially if they had been violated, abducted or forcibly enjoyed and so denied an honorable status in society, or had been given away as gifts in religious or secular events- such women were frequently forced to take up prostitution as a profession- or at least a way to freedom.    ...Download file to see next pagesRead More