Love for Sale: A Global History of Prostitution
By Nils Ringdal.
Description
The exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been a catalyst for changing notions of love, morality, and sexuality. |n this book, Nils Johan Ringdal delivers a magisterial -and extremely readable - world history of this most maligned, and most persistent, occupation. Love for Sale encompasses the entire recorded history of prostitution, from the ancient world right up to the modern red-light district and beyond and is packed with fresh insigh...
ISBN(s)
1843543141, 9781843543145
