• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Damn I would sign up for that.

    Sacred prostitution - paid sex that is highly respected and beneficial to all parties? It be like dang yo, yeah, I’ve been feeling pretty shit have had no game in so many years, I’ll go pay my dues to the preistesses and probably feel quite a bit better for contributing to the religion too

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          3 months ago

          Or maybe they were appreciating the positive aspects of a concept without restricting the idea to one flawed implementation.

          It’s like saying communism is nice because sick people don’t have to work as much as healthy people for a good standard is living. Responding “well Stalin killed 60 million people” isn’t really meaningfully engaging with OP.

  • totallynotaspy@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Kushiel’s Dart series is more or less about this if anyone needs a representation of this in literature/media.