Prostitution History

People have been paying for goods and services in this day and age with paper and plastic before that is was gold and silver, past that it was livestock and crops. The one way that mankind has always had to pay for goods and services or to make a living is prostitution. Sexual conduct for the goods and services is as old as humanity. Prostitution history is long and very different than what most may think. Prostitution has old has it get "Evidence of prostitution in ancient Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations dates as far back as 2400 BCE" (Cushman, Ames 4) Prostitution is one of the oldest ways that human has made their living. In places like ancient Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman it was legal and sometimes was considered sacred. It was even practiced by both only man and woman.
With laws criminalizing prostitution, punishments could range from having their heads shaving to having ear and nose cut off. Even with great risks prostitution had not stopped and continued to be a part of so many people's lives. In England and France Prostitution was criminalized in the mid-sixteenth and Pope Sixths V calling for the death penalty. With an even greater intolerance, it still continued to exist in the shadows. After the France revolution it had been made legal agent but after World War II Prostitution gone a negative stigma due to the fact that Nazi was treated better than most other people. Starting the wave to make prostitution illegal in the United States of America and Europe. (Cushman, Ames 6-10) Some countries today have decriminalized prostitution but most of The United states of America and Europe still punish it has a crime. Prostitution is part of who human are regulations should be established, it is not all about sex and it put a bearded on the criminal justice