Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday, 26 March 2010

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SEX IN THE SERVICE OF APHRODITE
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Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?
"Holy harlots" in Jerusalem, temple sex in the service of Aphrodite?
Many ancient authors describe sacred prostitution in drastic terms. Are
the accounts nothing but legends? Historians are searching for the
kernel of truth behind the reports.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,685716,00.html#ref=nlint