Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of prostitution or other sexual intercourse performed in the context of religious worship, often as a form of fertility rite.
Read more about Sacred Prostitution: Ancient Near East, Asia, Central and South America, Revisionist Criticism of "widespread Sacred Prostitution", Recent Western Occurrences
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