They were looked down only by prudish European invaders. It was the British who destroyed these courtesans by enacting laws that made their occupations illegal.

@@shunya1988 The video literally mentions that they were both respected/venerated and also looked down upon.

The "looked down upon" was only really in later periods of 17th-19th century

As video said, there were many types/category of courtesans. So some respected by some people, others not.

@@Edward4Plantagenet Ganikas and Rupajivas were probably more respected I guess? the housewife and the ones doing it on ground might have been less respected?

Acharya Chanakya, Vishnu Gupta

Bruh that's chanakya, literally the guy who forged the golden age of india by helping and training chandragupta.

@@treatoplease3479 ahh golden age is Gupta not Mauryan also Chanakya didn't "founded" it Chandragupta did none of the original text even talks of him the best he did was helping Chandra forming an alliance

@@fymwp9992 Bruh chanakya literally raised chandragupta after buying him from his abusive steparents, he knew he was the heir of the empire. He trained him, educated him, and helped him regain the throne. He also advised him in literally EVERY MATTER, including strategy in battles. Small contribution? Nah.

@@treatoplease3479 Lol who told you he did all of that..you cliche tv serials on Chanakya inreality nothing that sort if even happened no original text even mention and even the first one which mention him i.e a much later written historical fiction Mudrarakshas mention any of that things you told so stop with this exaggeration yup its a small contribution

Indeed. Thank you for highlighting this later context!

@@OddCompass One major flaw in accuracy is that Dasa/Dasi translates to Paid servants, not slaves.

Well what about devdasis and the story of amrapali are u going to blame that on the Victorian era too?

@@EloraSelah And what about DevaDasis? Servant of God, was also paid. When the custom started, it was about an empowered woman choosing to dance in Bhakti for God, & the system was even RESPECTFUL of her own needs & allowed her to CHOOSE any sexual partner she wanted, if she wanted any. She could be in a relationship too. And the man was allowed in her quarters. Not like the celibate priest. You should question how the Devadasi who had a higher status than kings, be suddenly reduced to be FORCED to be with people? How did the exploitation start? Question that. Question why women can no longer be the most respected social class, & were exploited instead? BECAUSE this pure, sacred practice (a lucrative job) started to force young girls into prostitution, that IS WHY an extremely respectable job, became a curse & a social evil. Because Victorian era doesn't understand the concept of women choosing their partners, yet being devoted to God, praying, and yet being respected. The identity of a woman not tied to a man, but to God. And she was allowed to be not celibate? This simply translates to prostitute in their limited minds.

@@dOVERanalyst dasa are not just servants . see rajiv malhotra video on "sanskrit non translatables"

Yeah, but it's hard to explain to these people who don't knkw the language

Also, in ancient India, it was norm and law of the land to not exploit your daas/daasi and treat them right. One was also responsible for taking care of their daas/daasis.

Thanks for saying that because India is the only country that never had slaves and these slave filled countries just cannot understand the translation

@William the conqueror it may have been mentioned there but there were many types of das/dasi some served in the royal palace (they held quite high position) they were free and given wages then there were surfs they too were called das/dasi and yeah they were treated like surfs

@William the conqueror if you'll keep reading English translations, you'll get nothing but confusion. Learn indic languages or ask any Indian guru to explain, don't read indian scriptures on your own. Even we Indians can't understand them completely, they mean thousands of things at once.

But technically those men used to cheat on their wives na . ( Don't say they didn't have sex with courtesan) . Is it a good thing ?? And why did men needed to see errotic dances of women to entertain themselves? If their wives were not educated then it's their fault na that why didn't they marry an educated and opiniated woman? Would they accept if their wives did the same. Engaged with some other hot , seductive, masculine , educated men?? No na . Everything was okay for men to do. To openly cheat on their wives . But women couldn't do the same . Why were there no male courtsean to entertain the royal women?? You can't deny that they were technically mistresses of those men . Thank God the British stopped this . And btw brothels in India- sonagachi, kamathipura etc all were made by the British in India and are the main reasons for kidnapping and trafficking of girls in India, Nepal.

If there were feminine women made to dance to entertain royal men, why there were no masculine men used for royal women's entertainment.? So men could cheat but women couldn't. Slow claps 👏

Yes this is why most of your women are courtesans

@@user-go9kw6wf4m first become a historian then talk.

Wow…you sound like a bitter wife who’s husband is cheating on her…why are you so angry at people from 500 years ago?!

thanks for the extra info.

Source? Also Emperor not King

Thank you so much. It’s all self-funded. I make the animations, script, voiceover, and edit myself. Glad you enjoy the videos!

@@OddCompass i love it!

@@OddCompass did you learn animation through specific softwares? I am interested to learn motion design and animation and need credible sources to learn from. Please let me know if you can. Thank you.

@@OddCompass thats... i dont have any words. keep making such great videos!

But this is not a good topic .

@@gnanaganesh5937 Why isn't it a good topic, what too salacious

@@gnanaganesh5937 Why not?

@@anirudh177 he is a randa

Another fantastic video! I'm surprised when you show South Asia you don't include Afghanistan however, the birthplace of the Khaliji dynasty, the Lodis, which eventually lead to the Mughals, as well as the Durani empire and the Sur empire that defeated the Mughals and conquered Bengal. North India is linked to Pastun and Afghani culture even now the biggest bollywood dynasties are afghani descended families.

Pompeii Lakshmi was not a courtesan that was a statue of Goddess Lakshmi herself there are many many statues and sculptures of Gods and Godesses which are made in an open way our ancient India was much more open about sex, art, fashion, science, literature and architecture etc.

@@debodatta7398 well they are converts so i don't think so we can say that we have their culture they have our culture because we are the first one here

@@debodatta7398 lmao. mahmhud ghazni was a turk not afghan. his father was sebutkgin who was a central asian turk slave. afghanistan was first conquered by turks then they came to india. even muhammad ghori was a turk and qutub ud din aibak also was a turkic slave from central asia. read history. only pashtun or afghan was sher shah suri and abdali.

What are you talking about ??....If Das and Dasi have had freedom then why didn't Pandavas defend their wife Draupadi when Dushasan dragged her in Royal court , because they have no rights and if their master wants to do "Cheer Haran" of a Dasi in front of her 5 Daas Husbands then they have no rights hence no freedom.

@@adiver_ what are you even talking about? 😂😂😂 Pandavas were not Das 😂😂😂😂

@@vrajupadhyay9900 I guess you haven't read Mahabharat then , Shakuni and Duryodhan was jealous of Yudhishthir's Indraprasth , so they devised a plan to invite Pandavas to Hastinapur with the permission from his father , the King of Hastinapur. In the game of dice , First Yudhishthir lost all his wealth , then his Kingdom them all his brothers and then he lost himself in the game and became Daas and then he said I don't have anything , so Shakuni suggested that you still have wife Draupadi , then He lost his wife also then Duryodhan ordered Dushasan to bring her to him by dragging her with hairs and Disrobe his Dasi, in which the mighty Bheem and Arjun was sitting there itself as Daas and they couldn't save the honour of their wife cause they are the Daas of Duryodhan at that time , After Lord Krishna saved Draupadi from embarrassment , then Dhritarashtr fearing that she might curse his Vansh , He freed all the pandavas from slavery and gave everything back that they had lost at that time. Shall I write the whole Mahabharat or maybe you can read it for yourself.

@@adiver_ just copy pasting comments now...

@@avinashs7571 well the points in both the comments are same then why not the answer is same ..... Btw the comments are different if you care to read it.....Whats 2+2 and what's 3+1 ? Why the answer is same

I do not agree with the courtesan lifestyle, but how else could women of that era elevate themselves? This was a very intetesting video.

What are you talking about lol? no offence, but the status of women in modern India is far better than it ever was in ancient times. This applies to women in every country.

Hi Anirudh. I hope you’re safe and doing well. I think there’s a lot for you to read, research and delve into. The Rig Vedā, oldest scripture that is - has hymns written by women who were not only revered in ancient India but we’re worshipped in their purest forms, their names go as ‘Lopamudra’, ‘Maitreyi’ & ‘Katyani’. Tell me any other holy scripture which is revered in any other culture, written by a woman. There isn’t. Up till the Invasions took a repetitive nature at around the 12th Century, women could part take in debate(vāad) and even competed against scholars, because- even they were scholars. They had knowledge of the Vedas, and were very much involved in many socio-political activities. It is only after the Barbarians who invaded and plundered the country in a series of repetition, that the women were kept in protection. This is where ‘Ghunghat’ was made prevalent, in order to protect the women from the barbarians who took away and committed unimaginable atrocities to them. - We had women at positions of power. In fact, Ghori was first devastated in terms of a defeat by Rani Naiki Devi, the queen of Chalukyas. A Woman. When you say Ancient, remember that you are talking before the 10th century. After it, we delve into The Medieval Age. It certainly can be said that in the Medieval age, the position of women drastically got dumped down, which has its roots to the invasions and simply nothing else. Ancient India, and the position of women that it carried was at a different level, than if we compare it to Medieval and even Modern India. Read More. Find More. Go through reliable sources. I hope this would help you in some way. Keep Up Buddy. Cheers Anirudh.

@@vidhansharma6155 "The Rig Vedā, oldest scripture that is - has hymns written by women who were not only revered in ancient India but we’re worshipped in their purest forms, their names go as ‘Lopamudra’, ‘Maitreyi’ & ‘Katyani’." Yes, I am aware of the Brahmavadinis, you've also forgotten to add Gargi Vachaknavi, Vishwawara, Sikta and Ghosha. None of these were worshipped however and they wrote a small minority of the hymns. But I don't see how this indicates in anyway that women in the Early Vedic Period were better off compared to today's women. During the Vedic Period, North Indian women could do upanayana and perform Vedic rituals on their own and read the Vedas. The age of marriage for women in India was also around 16 - 17, the Vedic period was probably the best time for the pre-modern Indian women. This stopped happening from 300s and 200s BCE from the time of the Mahajanapada era. From this time the age of marriage among Indians decreased to puberty age, which meant that women were now restricted from education, and the education of women became restricted to only the Brahmins and Kshatriyas with higher ranking Vaishyas in there too, of course we still see many debates when women participate even during these times. But its strange to see someone call an ancient conservative society as "progressive or reformist" न जा॒मये॒ तान्वो॑ रि॒क्थमा॑रैक्च॒कार॒ गर्भं॑ सनि॒तुर्नि॒धान॑म् । यदी॑ मा॒तरो॑ ज॒नय॑न्त॒ वह्नि॑म॒न्यः क॒र्ता सु॒कृतो॑र॒न्य ऋ॒न्धन् ॥ “(A son) born of the body, does not transfer (paternal) wealth to a sister; he has made (her) the recptacle of the embryo of the husband; if the parents procreate children (of either sex), one is the performer of holy acts, the other is to be enriched (with gifts).” इन्द्र॑श्चिद्घा॒ तद॑ब्रवीत्स्त्रि॒या अ॑शा॒स्यं मन॑: । उ॒तो अह॒ क्रतुं॑ र॒घुम् ॥ “Verily Indra said that the mind of a woman is not to be controlled, he declared also that her intellect was small.” The Vedic women may have had it much better than her post-Vedic counterparts, but ancient Vedic society was still Patriarchal (like most societies and civilizations) and women generally had a lower status than men. Tell me one thing that ancient Indian women could do that modern Indian women can't.

@@vidhansharma6155 "women could part take in debate(vāad) and even competed against scholars, because- even they were scholars." Already addressed this earlier. "It is only after the Barbarians who invaded and plundered the country" Yes, Late Medieval Invasions by the Turks and other Islamic states regressed the position of women than they had already been in. "and were very much involved in many socio-political activities." They continued on being involved well into the Early Modern times and ahead. Women in parts ancient India certainly could take up high positions in the administration, this was especially common in south India, where Kannadiga ladies seem to leading in this. When we look at the military, women generally did not participate here, most of the times, it was female noblewomen and princesses who took up military positions if they did. The closest it came to female armies was the usage of female bodyguards and assassins. "This is where ‘Ghunghat’ was made prevalent" The Ghunghat evolved from the ancient "Avagunthana" (Sanskrit for veil/cloak). Early Sanskrit literature has a wide vocabulary of terms for the veils used by women, such as avagunthana meaning cloak-veil, uttariya meaning shoulder-veil, adhikantha pata meaning neck-veil, and sirovas-tra meaning head-veil. Sudraka, the author of the Mrcchakatika mentions that some females wore the Avagunthana. This was not used by women every day and at every time. It was worn on special occasions like marriage or at the time of going out. And Sudraka also mentions that a married woman was expected to put on a veil while moving in the public, while unmarried women were not expected to do so. Although married women were expected to wear the veil in the public, it wasn't always strictly followed. "and committed unimaginable atrocities to them" rape, murder and slavery is hardly an unimaginable atrocity, it was a common visual of warfare worldwide sadly. "When you say Ancient, remember that you are talking before the 10th century. After it, we delve into The Medieval Age." Wrong, the Ancient period ends in 647 CE in India, and the Early Medieval period begins from 647 CE to 1206 CE. Ancient Period = before 647 CE Early Medieval Period = 647 - 1206 CE Late Medieval Period = 1206 - 1498 CE Early Modern Period = 1498 = 1857 CE "It certainly can be said that in the Medieval age, the position of women drastically got dumped down, which has its roots to the invasions and simply nothing else. " I agree, while the position of women in Indian society before the Islamic Invasions were way better than after it, it was still not as good as the position of women in the Republic of India.

First of all its The Indian Subcontinent and second of all don't ever try to compare our greatest civilization and history to any other part of the world, thank you

We were the one who influenced, and civilized east and south east, and other part of the world since ancient times, never ever try to compare us to anyone

@@user-hq8wm8giyujcg LOL "never ever try to compare"...? I guess you've NEVER taken any comparative religious studies/ literature/ cultural classes nor do you see the need to. SAD. Enjoy your monolithic delusional life.

@@user-hq8wm8giyujcg It's this sort of overconfidence that keeps bringing down Indian society and makes us complacent.

@@theAraAra true

He is an NRI if I'm not wrong

He is of Indian origin

Haha thank you! But yes, I’m of Indian origin!

@@OddCompass I could tell by the way you pronounced andhra pradesh

You’re welcome, glad to have clarified!

When has schooling bought fruit and also this is not women empowerment.

Women empowerment!!!??

I want two wives 😔😔😔 Bigamy should become legal in India for non Muslim men It is unfair if Muslim men can have upto to 4 wives. Why can't non Muslim men have at least 2 wives it is better than going to prostitutes or other girls for sex simple it will be fun. 1st wife= 6 months 2nd wife= 6 months Every year.

Watch Jay Vardhan Singh he's great for Indian history.

I am a woman and this is not fucking women empowerment.

Combatants? Huh?

@@ArawnOfAnnwn sorry about that, meant to say constantly improving.

@@mylesjude233 ah okay

We do have some Bollywood movies set in those times, but they're, well, Bollywood-ified. Frankly Bollywood is a terrible way to learn history, there's almost no concern for historical accuracy. So it's probably for best that they don't do it much.

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Bollywood always turns the protagonist into a perfect pure and a flawless hero, while the antagonist is portrayed as cartoonishly villanous

@@ArawnOfAnnwn That's issue: Just 'some'. There aren't lot of Indian movies set in ancient or medieval times compared to Japan, Korea or China. There's plenty of potential for filmmakers to cover this lost history, accuracy or not.

@@Germania9 Perhaps. Although tbh, I'd prefer it be left uncovered that to propagate false ideas about history. It's okay I guess if you do it like how 300 did it, where the film is so ridiculous that no one's gonna believe it (unless you're an idiot). But films like Kingdom of Heaven are more common, and more troublesome. Ideas about the past inform ideas about the present, and I'd rather have fewer ideas about it overall than more false ones. Especially in a country where our actual historians are already often attacked over politics, leaving them with very little capacity to correct anything.

And you need bollywood movies to know history? Seriously! Go buy some history books

Shows ur ignorance, kamasutra isn't just about sex, it's only one chapter is about sex

Says someone who has never read Kamasutra or known about its acceptance

Yeah mughals had some quite good history about the courtesans

Yeah! That would've been cool

Depends on the ruler to be honest, babur for example writes his relation with a boy called babri, clearly sinful, in his autobiography. At the same time, he calls himself a Ghazi(one who fights non muslims). It's clear that to most muslim nobility in india religion was something they'd alter to their benefits most of the time as it suited them.

Here comes anti-Muslim comments. 90% of the youth of India are no good for anything. They can't work on the fields, they didn't acquire much knowledge to serve as public officers. But they HAVE mastered in spewing their hatred towards their largest minority. No wonder the British left! India is no longer utile since 1947.

@@adibzinnurine7917 so you make it "utile"

What are you talking about ??....If Das and Dasi have had freedom then why didn't Pandavas defend their wife Draupadi when Dushasan dragged her in Royal court , because they have no rights and if their master wants to do "Cheer Haran" of a Dasi in front of her 5 Daas Husbands, then he can do it. Also remember that Draupadi was the Kul-Vadhu of Bharatvansh. And if you consider Mahabharat as our History then it is correct to assume that same happened. And if you consider Mahabharat as Poem written by Vyas 3000 years ago then also you have to admit to it because the Poem is from Dwapar Yug , where Lord Vishu came to Earth as Avataar, So after that the situation of rights and freedom of Das would have definitely worsen. You just can not compare the ancient India with the standards of Today's society , but you like to believe that we treated Slaves(Das) very fairly. Wake up bro

@@adiver_ , I like history. I stated what megasthanese wrote in his book. If you have problem with that, please contact megasthanese. Slavery was most probably banned some time before his visit. Because it was not widespread but it was there. Other record - Hyecho 724 CE, written slavery was banned. You are claiming things as fact even when Scholars are not agree on any one "most possible" meaning of Dasa. Stop taking serials word to word. As you said there is difference between today & ancient times. All that Mahabharata, Yudhistir lost himself first so he had no right over others. & It was duryodhan against him, do you expect him to follow things.

@@Edward4Plantagenet I haven't read any of the history by foreigners , I am just pointing out that Das in our history was not allowed any freedom and rights , that is my only point that Das were Slaves. They were not like maids and not like bonded labours , they were Slaves plain and simple. And the fact that Yudhishthir lost himself first and has no right over his wife and even he hasn't lost himself he didn't have right to treat his wife or his younger brothers or even his Kingdom Indraprasth as his personal wealth was well answered by Lord Krishna , yes he didn't have the right to do so, but the fact that all that happened in front of Bhisma , kripachary, Dronachary and the King himself of Hastinapur , tells us that having right to do that and not having right to do that was allowed in the particular Royal Court. Ye they were wrong but that's not my point that how they became Das , my point is that Das didn't have rights and freedom and they weren't like bonded labour or maids.

@@prasadchaturdesale5795 bhai , this plain and simple you are trying to say that Das system was better than slavery , well it was not. Remember when the queen of Virat nagar ordered her beautician(Draupadi during Agyatavas) to go to her brother Kichak's room to pleasure him and she did go there . Why did she go there if she had free will??.....There are tons of instances to indicate that Das system was not good and there are so many things you can be proud of in our history but don't say that Das system was better than Slavery.

@@adiver_ Do master listen to their slave?No, but a Swami does why not take example of Keikai from Ramayan. Were daas always free?No, but their right as a human is respected when going according to rules, either way there's gonna be people who will not and treat them as piece of shit the one who thinks of they are just people to be exploited.

@oddhistory

Never have i seen a comment where it it be more appropriate to describe it as "sus" than this one

@@mewmimo8465 I really do feel that I was a courtesan in my past life. Sus indeed💃

their is a perfect time for everything , if kids listen to this its over

Ohh, I lived in Malaysia so that’s an interesting topic for me! I’ll look further into it :)

Well what can we do, times changed, after 1000years old experience

Thousand years Poverty Harm civilizations.

We survived Islamic invasions and the British. After a 1000 years our society structures and civilization was harmed severely.

Yes then why you are against russian invasion of Ukraine lol.

@@AaronBiswas who said I'm against lol...

@@AaronBiswas because it's wrong

@@tivo3720 bruh you support Russians killing kids?

@@leaveme3559 you and your father help us if some other country attack on india? During 1971 war Usa, Britain,turkey sent nuclear submarine, there is only one country in this whole world who send his own nuclear warships and signed a agreement with india that"who so ever attack india, soviet Union declared a war against that country

Sounds like a cool topic, if you don't mind recommending some for me to look into

I would love if he goes a bit into Sanskrit tragedy plays. Oorubhangam (The breaking of the thigh) and Karnabharam (The anguish of Karna) by the playwright Bhasa are the only surviving tragedies among the Sanskrit plays. Bharata Muni's extremely infulential manual on performance arts, dancing and writing a play, Natyashastra makes it a strict rule that the play has to end on a happy note. Because of which, after him, there are very few Sanskrit tragedies. Whatever pre-Bharata tragedies existed are mostly lost, except these two plays. The Natyashastra was between 200 BCE and 200 CE btw

There's a lot of lost literature in India

Sounds like a cool video idea.

I want a video on the Guptas as a whole 😋 From the founding of the dynasty in the Late 200s, and its early kings and rulers, to Chandragupta I's expansion and establishment of the Guptas a regional player, the subsequent civil war after his reign, Samudragupta's campaigns and conquests which turned the Gupta Kingdom into an empire and the beginning of the Gupta Golden Age. Chandragupta II Vikramaditya's conquests, and the peak of Gupta political and economic power and influence under him. Kumaragupta I's consolidation of the empire and the establishment of the Educational Institution of Nalanda by him, the multiple major rebellions and hunnic raids in the last few years of his reign. The destructive civil war between Ghatotkachagupta (Kumaragupta's brother) and Skandagupta (one of Kumaragupta's sons) and the other minor players in the game. The reign of Skandagupta as the last great Gupta emperor and his victory against the Hunnic invasion in 455 AD. And the decline under later rulers, the 2nd major Hunnic Invasion by Toramana, and the alliance of Guptas and various north Indian kings who defeated them at the battle of Sondani (528 CE) and pushed back Toramana's son Mihirakula and his Alkhon-Hunnic empire out of Indian territories.

@@anirudh177 From what you described, it sounds like an awesome video topic to watch

@@mylesjude233 It's a great topic to watch! although the scarcity of records mean that our knowledge of their campaigns are pretty low 😥, at least we know the routes/paths and the path they took to march in their campaigns and the kingdoms they conquered, other than perhaps 1 or 2 battles, we sadly almost know nothing about their pitched battle encounters. The Gupta military was mostly cavalry and infantry archer-based army (considering that their closest neighbours - The White Huns and the Persians were horselords, this usage of cavalry and archers makes sense).

@@anirudh177 Thanks for the info 👍

That’s a fair point - it’s unfortunate that they were forced to navigate such a challenging system, but it’s certainly interesting to see the influence they managed to have despite these limitations.

Rich men cheating with courtesan = liberal

@@noobieexplorer4697 don't confuse being liberal with immoral values. Women in the ancient days owned wealth given by their parents but was later called dowry demanded by the husband's family.

No they weren't They were not allowed

I think some cool video ideas would be conflict shown between the Marathas and Mughals, as well as the growth of the Sikh Empire under Ranjit Singh.

@@mylesjude233 better The Islamic invasions and Indian influence in South east Asia.

@@khosrowanushirwan7591 That sounds interesting, especially the conqyest of Alauddin Khalji or Mahmud of ghazni

@@mylesjude233 yeah and a reminder war doesn't harm life only but knowledge gathered over 100 of years

@@khosrowanushirwan7591 Would be nice if he mentions the initial defeats and difficulties faced by Ghazni and Ghori before winning and conquering the North. And yeah it would be nice to see a video on Indian influence on SE Asia I personally want him to make vids on Indian maths, medicine and philosophy.

A lot of prosperous communities in India went to shit because of Colonialism. The Kinnar community for example were similar to these courtesans, they were renowned musicians and artists. Colonial laws criminalised this community because of which they had to live like beggars and they do so till this day. It won't be a surprise if Courtesan culture in India met the same fate. It's really shameful that our government had to wait this long to decriminalise Gays and Kinnars after independence.

@@el_iron_duke They more accurately "went to shit" because of India's 🪷 bad luck at getting extremely low crisis shock from mass disasters filled with human agony. Meanwhile, Britain ☕ got absurdly lucky, with multiple crises that make pretty much the entire population cry 😭😭😭 and ground all their hopes into fine dust.

Not "unnecessary drama" but "necessary concern"

There was no problem with akahand bharatam 😄

He's talking history here were India was Akhand Bharat

@@aw6ken_speakz Sri Lanka was never part of India. Arkhand Bharat is just a pure fetish dreamed up by the goons running India.

He said it following the statement. Services like these are often very expensive and thriving of these kinds of services means there is mre disposal income with the people, which indicates that the society is prosperous.

@@SanthoshAllenki Hey! Certainly. But this doesn't restrict you to just prostitution. Practically every job requires a certain level of prosperity in the society to be able to have that sort of a job. If there was an actual study I was hoping to find if there was a quantification of the amount of prosperity needed to be able to have prostitution.

@@prakhargodara5898 Yeah. I think Quantification of these kinds of things not possible to predict with good amount of accuracy. But there is a difference between other jobs and prostitution right it is kind of luxury which only people of somewhat prosperous society can afford.

Wrong statement because in Thailand, prostitution is a well functioning business but Thailand is certainly not economically prosperous.

Well Devdasis(female slaves of god)Still Exist In Some Parts Of South India I knew a temple but forget it's name

@@boomshakalakaboom543 dasi is not slave. It's servant

@@Sticklemako das or dasi literally means slave

Read Arthashastra and you can know all about "slaves", In ancient India "Slaves" had property rights and state protection, the are many laws in Arthashastra relating to "slavery" which show the complicated social structure of ancient India, its not all black white as it was depicted in popular media take the following sloka for example "Employing a slave to carry the dead or to sweep ordure, urine, or the leavings of food; keeping a slave naked; or hurting or abusing him; or violating (the chastity of) a female slave shall cause the forfeiture of the value paid for him or her. Violation (of the chastity) of nurses, female cooks, or female servants of the class of joint cultivators or of any other description shall at once earn their liberty for them. Violence towards an attendant of high birth shall entitle him to run away. When a master has connection with a nurse or pledged female slave against her will, he shall be punished with the first amercement; a stranger doing the same shall be punished with the middlemost amercement. When a man commits or helps another to commit rape with a girl or a female slave pledged to him, he shall not only forfeit the purchase value, but also pay a certain amount of money (sulka) to her and a fine of twice the amount (of sulka to the Government)" Yes its bad but not as inhumane as westerners wants us to believe, its not like slavery of Greek, Rome or Arab world like based on race (as much the media wants us to believe Indians endorse in slavery based on race or skin color its not true) the "slaves" in India are more like wage less workers for certain amount of time depending on the debt they owe.

@@playhard719 Its indentured labour then, slaves are owned as property and can be transacted like any other goods. Not so with indebted servants