Which came first, the punter or the prostitute?

[CunningLinguist]

Any ideas anyone?

[grant]

well i guess it depends on how much pent up sexual energy they each have

[Happyas]

I am guessing the same time the bloke was horny and wanted to sleep with the woman but she would not unless he made it worth her while

[wilisno]

Very much like chicken or egg I guess !

[herecticx]

id say rape first

[Licker]

Which came first, the punter or the prostitute?

Was money invented at the time?

[rooter]

The prostitute came first, and often; but the punter had the last word with a CIM.
Well, that's how my session went anyway.

[Max Impact]

The lady always cums first. I'm just that kind of a nice guy.

[Eureka]

The Pimp !!!!

You can't be a punter ... Until you actually punt !!
You can't be a WG ... until you actually do a client !!

Neither can occur without a transaction facilitator ... or catalyst !!

So I think the Pimp (Mamasan) came first !! :) :) :)

[Max Impact]

Eureka, are you sure the first time involved a Pimp? I'm thinking a Shanghai girl was looking at the latest Chanel classic flap bag in the shop window trying to work out how she could get it fast.

And then prostitution was born...

[CunningLinguist]

the ancient Mesopotamians practiced temple prostitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution)

The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus

[refokkused]

hehehe I think Max Impact is on the right track !

[Licker]

Did prostitution start before Homo Sapiens?
Were there times when Homo Erectus females exchanged sexual favors for a piece of meat?
Or their Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal cousins?

Do monkeys pay for sex? Not with money, but with protection, feeding the young, etc. That certainly happens in some primate species.