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	Prostitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prostitution is rejected by most religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; their customers are typically tolerated to a greater degree.
		Prostitutes (particularly those engaging in street prostitution) are also sometimes the targets of serial killers who see themselves as justified in killing prostitutes by the religious and social stigma associated with prostitution.
		Prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was influential in the banning of drug use and was a major force in the prohibition of alcohol.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Prostitution (5452 words)

	Religious prostitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious prostitution is the practice of having sexual intercourse (with a person other than one's spouse) for a religious purpose.
		A woman engaged in such practices is sometimes called a temple prostitute or hierodule, though modern connotations of the term prostitute cause interpretations of these phrases to be highly misleading.
		In the 1970s and early 1980s some religious groups were discovered practicing sacred prostitution as an instrument to recruit new converts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_prostitution (679 words)

	Trafficking and Prostitution in Bangladesh, Making the Harm Visible, Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls, ...
		Seventy of the evicted prostitutes harboring the notion that theirs’ was a lawful profession (as they had sworn affidavits stating that they had joined the "trade" voluntarily in exercise of their fundamental and constitutional right to profess any trade) approached me for legal protection.
		Under religious laws there are no requirements for registration of marriages (though our municipal law decrees otherwise), so most people ignore the legal requirement and opt for the marriage to be performed under their religious law.
		As the religious laws are also a part of our municipal law it creates legal contradictions conflicting with our Constitution and which has led women activists to demand a secular common law for all citizens irrespective of religion.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/wms/hughes/mhvbang.htm (2779 words)

	The White Slave Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prostitution was, and is a widespread evil, yet mankind goes on its business, perfectly indifferent to the sufferings and distress of the victims of prostitution.
		Whatever their reason, they should be the last to cry out against the unfortunate victims of today, since it is known to every intelligent student that prostitution is of religious origin, maintained and fostered for many centuries, not as a shame, but as a virtue, hailed as such by the Gods themselves.
		"The theory that religious prostitution developed, as a general rule, out of the belief that the generative activity of human beings possessed a mysterious and sacred influence in promoting the fertility of Nature, is maintained by all authoritative writers on the subject.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/goldman/ME/whiteslave.html (3116 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		One prostitute stands by a roadside, and directs cars to a "tochka" (usually located in alleyways or carparks), where lines of women are paraded for customers in front of their car headlights.
		Prostitutes will often proposition truckers using a CB radio from vehicle parked in the non-commercial section of a truck stop parking lot, communicating through codes based on commercial driving slang, then join the driver in his truck.
		At the low end, a significant number of prostitutes are also drug addicts who use prostitution to pay for their habit, sometimes referred to as 'crack whores' because of the prevalence of this behavior among some communities of crack cocaine users.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Prostitution_.html (5813 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Religious Toleration
		By religious toleration is understood the magnanimous indulgence which one shows towards a religion other than his own, accompanied by the moral determination to leave it and its adherents unmolested in private and public, although internally one views it with complete disapproval as a "false faith".
		Tolerance and religious liberty are not, however, interchangeable terms, since the right implied in state tolerance to grant full or limited religious liberty involves the further right to refuse, to contract, or to withdraw this freedom under certain circumstances, as is clear from the history of toleration laws in every age.
		Thus a Protestant religious State was forcibly instituted in England under Queen Elizabeth by clearing the country of all Catholics, and the Diet of Upsala in 1593 strove to preserve the strictly Lutheran character of Sweden by making the immigration of Catholics punishable with death.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14763a.htm (10414 words)

	WAC- Student Resources
		Prostitution is the "contractual barter of sex favors, usually sexual intercourse, for monetary considerations without any emotional attachment between the partners" (Grauerhold and Koralewski, 1991).
		The prostitutes themselves, both those that are doing it for the lack of a better paying job and those that are doing it because they have no desire to do anything better with their lives.
		We shouldn't characterize all prostitutes "as victims who are acting against their will and who are controlled by others… These characterizations just make the sex worker even more invisible as a worker" (Peratis, 2000).
	www.public.coe.edu /wac/legalization.htm (1118 words)

	The Ten Commandments: The Seventh Commandment
		Religious prostitutes were called "servants of God," and even as late as the second century sacred prostitution was still an honorable practice for women of good birth who felt the "call" to live the "divine life under the influence of divine inspiration." [*45]
		Religious prostitution of the Babylonian type was supposed to have been nothing but ordinary immorality practiced under the cloak of religion.
		Radadopis, who led the life of a prostitute in Egypt, became one of the leading citizens of her time, acquired wealth, and is even reputed to have had sufficient money and intelligence to build a pyramid.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/lewis/lewten72.htm (6902 words)

	E-newsletter of the Institute on Religious Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		After many years in the religious life and witnessing a more than tenfold growth of the Sisters of Mary over the last seven years, Mother Assumpta has seen God's ongoing “courtship” with her fellow sisters, novices and those discerning their vocations.
		True joy is present even in the midst of difficulty, pain or suffering; it is a grace and gift of God to the soul who is genuinely trying to follow his will for her life, in all of the daily tribulations as well as the high points.
		As a larger number of women are discerning their vocation to religious life after they have attained college or graduate degrees, they have not had sufficient time to completely repay their educational debt.
	www.religiouslife.com /enews_02-16-04.phtml (2849 words)

	The Traffic in Women
		Prostitution has been, and is, a widespread evil, yet mankind goes on its business, perfectly indifferent to the sufferings and distress of the victims of prostitution.
		Society considers the sex experiences of a man as attributes of his general development, while similar experiences in the life of a woman are looked upon as a terrible calamity, a loss of honor and of all that is good and noble in a human being.
		It may be true that the majority of prostitutes in New York City are foreigners, but that is because the majority of the population is foreign.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/Goldman/traffic.html (4162 words)

	CAN A HOMOSEXUAL REMAIN A CHRISTIAN?
		At the turn of the century, all or essentially all religious groups condemned family planning; some were active in promoting laws to ban the sale of contraceptives.
		We expect that early in the next century, most religious groups will accept that homosexual feelings are not chosen and are unchangeable in adulthood.
		We feel that the trend towards accepting homosexual orientation as natural, and normal is unstoppable, and that all religious groups will abandon their restrictions on gay and lesbian participation.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hom_chri.htm (1617 words)

	[No title]
		Following the logic of functionalism, Davis argues that “Prostitution is ________and this requires explanation.” A. costly to the community, B. more common among women than men, C. less vigorous in industrial societies, D. universal, E. biologically determined.
		According to Davis, prostitution will not decline when women are paid more because: A. some women enjoy prostitution; B. scarcity would raise prices and incentives; C. the demand would not be reduced; D. the incentive for prostitution is not money; E. more than one of the above.
		to reduce the role conflict of prostitutes; B. to keep prostitutes in their stigmatized social status; C. to complement rather than compete with marriage as an institution; D. to express and extend the norms of the industrial revolution and capitalism; E. to maintain some degree of social distance and self respect for the prostitute.
	www.unm.edu /~dbogart/s213/q13f022a.doc (466 words)

	Child hierodulic servitude (temple slavery) in India and Nepal
		Hierodulic child prostitution is a generic term which the Society uses to describe religiously-sanctioned child prostitution, and, specifically, those children engaged in religious cult prostitution known variously as aradhinis, basavis, bhavanis, bhogam-vandhis, devadasis, jjgateens, jogins (or jogatis), kalavanthulas, kudikars, maharis, muralis, natis and thevardiyars in India, and as deukis in Nepal.
		Although there are differences between these ancient institutions of cult prostitution, essentially they all involve parents dedicating their little daughters to a Hindu deity.
		The British made efforts to suppress hierodulic child prostitution in India — the Indian Penal Code 1860 made it a criminal offence to procure women or girls for that purpose — and it was on the decline throughout the earlier part of the last century.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /hieroras.htm (380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Prostitution was considered socially respectable and religiously purifying.
		For decades, religious movements such as Tantra, goddess spirituality, and the Church of Satan, have tried to provide religious sanction to sex outside marriage, as well as to transform “public women” into goddesses.
		As a result, for fifteen hundred years or so, the West has held that matrimony is holy, that the only sacred expression of sex is within marriage, and that the work of the Holy Spirit includes turning "the hearts of fathers to their children” away from a pursuit of selfish pleasure to building strong families.
	www.cbn.com /special/DaVinciCode/Mangalwadi_ReligiousSex.asp (2507 words)

	The Biblical Source of Western Sexual Morality
		Fertility Cults and Sacred Prostitution In many ancient societies, sex was a part of worship, a fact most clearly evident in the institution of cult prostitutes.
		In New Testament times, there were cult prostitutes in Athens and Corinth,[16] and as late as the fourth century AD, homosexual and heterosexual sacred prostitution was still practiced.[17] As the Bible itself suggests, cult prostitution was widespread in the ancient world.
		Even the Great Dionysia, the religious festival at which the Greek drama was played, was introduced by phallic processions, to which Athenian colonies piously sent phalli.[43] Thus, it is a mistake to contrast civic festivals and the mystery cults too sharply.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/sex01.htm (3534 words)

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		The religious conservatives had, for the most part, lost the public’s sympathy with their crusade against personal moral choices such as homosexuality and abortion, and needed a new holy war to inspire their congregations.
		There was only one problem: prostitutes had begun fighting for their rights in the early 1970’s and had become vocal about wanting to decriminalize consenting adult prostitution.
		If consenting adult prostitution was no longer a crime, there would be sufficient law enforcement resources available to investigate, arrest and prosecute those who truly victimize children, young women or any other persons by forcing them into ANY type of activity- including garment manufacturing “sweatshops,” domestic labor and picking crops.
	www.iswface.org /whowillrescueus.html (1019 words)

	Per-Bast.org >> The Domain of Bast >> Bast: modern myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This also precludes the idea that Bast is a goddess whose worshippers engaged in (take your pick): religious prostitution, orgiastic dance rituals, visionary orgasm, or ritualistic strip-teases.
		Religious prostitution appears to be a factor in Sumerian religion, but was never part of Egypt's due to the cultural significance placed upon ancestry and knowing a child's parentage.
		While dancing was important and female priests were frequently musicians and/or dancers [21], sex in the temple was considered a heresy; in the literal House of God, it simply didn't happen [22].
	www.per-bast.org /bast/essay/essay12.html (1445 words)

	IRL News Briefs — June 16, 2006
		The number of men religious decreased by 27.4% in the span of 26 years, nearly the entire pontificate of Pope John Paul II, from 75,000 in 1978.
		Of all male religious in the world, 16.40% reside in Asia, 14.16% in Africa, 30.14% in the Americas, 36.24% in Europe, and 3.06% in Oceania.
		Of all women religious in the world, 19.64% reside in Asia, 7.49% in Africa, 28% in the Americas, 43% in Europe, and less than 2% in Oceania.
	www.religiouslife.com /enews_06-16-06.htm (2124 words)

	The Hindu : Humanists urged to fight religious forces
		The time has come for humanists across the world to become socially and politically active and wage a united war against religious forces as they are anti-development, said Larry Jones, vice-president of International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), United States of America.
		Almost 60 per cent of the Government funding is done by religious organisations, he pointed out warning "we cannot afford to relax even for a moment for the `opposition' is politically active and well-funded."
		He dwelt at length on various other issues like the jogin system which he said was nothing but `religious prostitution'.
	www.hindu.com /2004/01/11/stories/2004011102750300.htm (395 words)

	Devadasi - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		In the temple, she would occasionally work like a prostitute to earn money for the temple (this too used to be called service to god).
		Offering girls to the temple was usually accompanied by ceremonies in which the girl would wear white or transparent cloths, would take a holy bath, and will be offered in her wet, semi-naked state to the god.
		Usually, the temple priest would first have sex with the girl, after which she would occasionally be used like a prostitute.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Devadasi (391 words)

	THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Not that the gratification of sex must needs lead to prostitution; it is the cruel, heartless, criminal persecution of those who dare divert from the beaten track, which is responsible for it.
		The latter has reached its highest expression in the proposed law to make humane treatment of prostitutes a crime, punishing any one sheltering a prostitute with five years' imprisonment and $1O,000 fine.
		As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/traffic.html (4223 words)

	Whosoever: I Kings 14:24 and 15:12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The original word qadesh is mistranslated as sodomite (homosexual) in the King James Version, but as male prostitute, male cult prostitutes, and male shrine prostitutes in more accurate versions.
		Instead, they condemn the practice of religious prostitution connected with the worship of a foreign god.
		It may be reproduced freely as long as the entire text is reproduced and unaltered, all attributions are left intact and it is not sold for profit or included in a for-profit publication.
	www.whosoever.org /bible/kings.html (281 words)

	Alternative Religions and Their Academic Supporters
		At the same time that Lewis intervened in Kent's publication process in early March, 1993, he and various academics associated with his organization, the Association for World Academics for Religious Education (AWARE) were engaged in producing a publication to help The Family cultivate a positive public image.
		In January, 1993, Family representatives had contacted Lewis (as the Executive Director of AWARE) and another unnamed academic "seeking advice on how to combat the negative publicity and other attacks they felt certain would result from the group's bold new public stature" in the United States (Lewis and Melton, 1994b, vi).
		Already in other countries around the world, The Family had been trying to distance itself from its controversial sexual practices such as "flirty fishing" (religious prostitution), sexual sharing among members, and sexual abuse of children (Ward, 1995).
	www.apologeticsindex.org /c26.html (1320 words)

	Sodomites and Musical Worship
		It is not uncommon in defending "civilian" homosexuality to ascribe the Biblical condemnation to cult or religious prostitution.
		Presiding over the flock "with a tune" does not minimize the violation of a direct command of Paul and COMMUNICATE to the watching world that the women and male performers are, consistent with all paganism, homosexuals claiming the universal power to lead you into the god's presence.
		Therefore, Robbins is wrong and the cult prostitute does not define the INHABITANTS OF SODOM as religious homosexuals.
	www.piney.com /Sodomites.html (3333 words)

	Ishtarism Coming Out of the Closet In American Churches!
		When this occurs it will feature a form of religious prostitution in which sexual activities will occur with money changing hands directly to the “temple” itself with the “priestesses” then being paid a salary perhaps, just like ministers in a Christian church would be paid a salary?
		In Babylon there was also a hierarchy of prostitutes from the high-ranking temple priestesses, the entu and naditu, to the tavern or street whore called harimtu.
		It’s worth noting that in Babylonian religious texts, the goddess Ishtar identifies herself with the lower ranks of the street prostitutes, saying "When I sit in the entrance of a tavern, I, Ishtar, am a loving harimtu." In another Babylonian text Ishtar proclaims, "A prostitute compassionate am I."
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_ishtar.htm (2312 words)

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