World's oldest profession?

@great-big-stees said
I thought I'd managed to, finally, catch on.

How do you know it wasn't the women negotiating for men?

@handyandy said
How do you know it wasn't the women negotiating for men?

I was there remember? My cave was right beside yours.

@handyandy said
How do you know it wasn't the women negotiating for men?

Easy the women were the weaker sex back then the men did all the negotiating if indeed there was any to be done! 😉

-VR

@handyandy said
@Great-Big-Stees

Grogette: "Me want your man."
Thorine: "Okay, but me want your crock pot."
Grogette: "Sounds good... shake."

Aha. It's coming back. She, Grogette, lived on the other side of me. Good looking, as I remember. You had eyes for her didn't you?

@great-big-stees said
Aha. It's coming back. She, Grogette, lived on the other side of me. Good looking, as I remember. You had eyes for her didn't you?

Me don't remember.

@handyandy said
Me don't remember.

Oh right, you are a bit older. 😉

@handyandy said
Me don't remember.

Here I assumed you had a memory like an elephant. I was obviously mistaken.

-VR

@very-rusty said
Here I assumed you had a memory like an elephant. I was obviously mistaken.

-VR

It wasn't his memory that is like an elephant...look at his trunk.

Nose you pervert...nose.

@great-big-stees said
It wasn't his memory that is like an elephant...look at his trunk.

Nose you pervert...nose.

You would be the pervert if you thought I was looking anywhere else! 😛 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
I wasn't there to see it of course, that is what google told me

Google didn’t tell you that toolmaking was the oldest profession it just told you how old it was.

Selling, trading is the oldest profession.

@divegeester said
Google didn’t tell you that toolmaking was the oldest profession it just told you how old it was.

Selling, trading is the oldest profession.

EXPLAINER
Is Prostitution Really the World’s Oldest Profession?
It is pretty old.
By FORREST WICKMAN

MARCH 06, 20125:57 PM
The Procuress painting, 1622
The Procuress, oil on canvas by Dirck van Baburen in 1622
Painting by Dirck van Baburen/CGFA Art Museum

Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut” on the air last week, enraging liberals and prompting many of his program’s advertisers to pull out. Prostitutes are often said to work in “the world’s oldest profession.” Is prostitution really the world’s oldest profession?

It depends how you define it. Humans have exchanged money and goods for sex for thousands of years, and indeed it seems that any society that begins to develop material wealth soon develops some form of prostitution. The Bible depicts many Israelites as having large numbers of concubines, who could be viewed either as prostitutes or as wives of a lesser status. According to 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had “700 wives … and 300 concubines.” In ancient Rome, it seems you could hand over a token at a brothel in return for a specific sexual favor. However, the common image of prostitutes as a special group of outcasts walking the streets may not have arisen until the Victorian era, when health officials blamed them for the spread of venereal diseases. In the 21st century, prostitution occurs across cultures and political systems, even operating in socialist societies.

The originator of the phrase “the world’s oldest profession” was Rudyard Kipling. His 1888 story about a prostitute begins, “Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.” As progressives debated how to deal with prostitution in the United States in the early 1900s, medical professionals soon began to cite (and misquote) Kipling, and the phrase took on a life of its own. Some wanted to do away with the vice and the many sexually transmitted infections that it spread. Their opponents in turn claimed fighting prostitution was worthless, because it was the world’s most ancient profession, and “you can’t change human nature.” Those who made this claim usually didn’t offer any historical evidence to support it: Christian progressives may have been thinking of the harlots and concubines depicted in some of the most ancient events of the Bible, while for others it was simply a figure of speech. By 1932 authors were naming their books after the idea, including physician William Josephus Robinson’s social and medical assessment The Oldest Profession in the World: Prostitution from 1929 and Joseph McCabe’s history The Story of the World’s Oldest Profession in 1932.

I assume we would have to figure out from this if toolmaking was before or after this! 😉 I am assuming it was before, guess of course on my part! I wasn't there of course!

-VR

@very-rusty said
Is Prostitution Really the World’s Oldest Profession?
It is pretty old.
By FORREST WICKMAN

So we’ve established that Google didn’t tell you that toolmaking was the oldest profession, but that it was pretty old. And Forrest Wickman thinks that prostitution is also pretty old.

Both are indeed pretty old, but the oldest profession in the world is selling, trading.

@divegeester said
So we’ve established that Google didn’t tell you that toolmaking was the oldest profession, but that it was pretty old. And Forrest Wickman thinks that prostitution is also pretty old.

Both are indeed pretty old, but the oldest profession in the world is selling, trading.

We can agree on that for sure! 😉

To this day we still sell and trade things!

I am still not fully convinced that man didn't make tools first.

-VR

@torunn said
I would have guessed midwife.

Nice to see an old thread again.

I was thinking maybe butcher.

Also I've heard it said that astronomy is the oldest profession.