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Sumerian Prostitution

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The beginning. Prostitution is nothing new to the world, it has been around throughout history. The first signs of prostitution were in 2400 B.C. among the Sumerian people. The Touro Law Review argues that prostitution started between the Sumerian people, Sumerians believed that women are inferior to men and the powerful gods were all males; therefore, prostitutes were looked down upon and held a lower status than slaves (Carrasquillo 2014). Another source states prostitution has always been part of everyday life in Ancient Greece and claims that is where pornography originated (Capaul 2013). Pornography is derived from the Greek word meaning "the writings of prostitutes" (Farley et., 2014). Prostitution then continued into the Ancient Rome
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