Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed in the context of religious worship.
In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or "houses of heaven" dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus. He was the first to state that the ancient Mesopotamians practiced temple prostitution.
The bible tells of cult-prostitution, both male and female as common among religious sites, pagan as well as the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The righteous were always cleaning house as far back as Moses and Aaron.
No doubt the same call will come again as the problem will always be contemporary!
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