Jāmi'ah'Shināsī-yi Rūspīgarī: Persian 1403

Studying the historical course of prostitution shows that this phenomenon is one of the oldest human deviations and has existed as a social reality for a long time. However, little scientific research has been done about it, according to Ebbinghaus (1909): Prostitution has a long past, but a short history. This is related to the problems of collecting scientific and generalizable information from the studied samples of prostitutes. Therefore, the lack of accurate and scientific research has caused the spread of false information about the grounds and factors, nature, and causes of prostitution. (et Potterat), prostitution has a history as old as patriarchy. From the time when mankind became familiar with planting, growing, and harvesting in agriculture, landholding, and slavery, the role of women changed from a means of production to a means of satisfying men's sexual desires. Resources such as gold power and land were recognized as scarce resources, prostitution became a commercial function, and the bitter human trade, namely prostitution, emerged. Perhaps one of the worst socio-historical response methods of mankind to its hedonism and diversity, and one of the darkest traumatic and psychological-social pathological problems of the last several thousand years, in the essence of the phenomenon of prostitution in the form of supply and demand of prostitutes. be with the customer. Therefore, in most societies and throughout history, prostitution has been denounced and condemned (Bullough et al., 1996). In primitive tribes, prostitution was not an issue, and women were presented to passers-by guests as a way of hospitality for various reasons, including keeping away from the eyes of envy and evil. Prostitution with dignity and sacred function, specific to the mysterious power of fertility for the benefit of the community, existed in classical antiquity. According to Will Durant, every Babylonian woman surrendered to a foreign man at least once in her lifetime in the temple of Milita. She handed the money or coins from sleeping with him to the temple treasury. Often in Egypt, India, and Western Asia, there was a shift from religious prostitution to legal prostitution. Among the Jews, some prostitutes worked to earn money.