>hurr prostitution is the oldest profession Yeah, no. The

You are wrong because staying alive doesn't count as a "profession." Food has inherent value. Sex doesn't. When you take sex and assign it an arbitrary value (i'll have this much sex with you for x amount of berries and nuts) it becomes economic, aka a profession.

>>2552382
>Yeah, no. The oldest profession could have been nothing but the acquiring of food, which can then be distributed and the distributor can expect some kind of reward or compensation - be that in the form of not doing other forms of labour, greater access to living resources/luxuries, or services from other individuals.

What if people exchanged sexual favours for that food?

Yeah, it's a retarded meme. If prostitution was the first profession then how did the clients acquire the resources to pay for the prostitute? By hunting, gathering? The hunting, gathering predate prostitution.

>>2552391
Then the people that got the food were the original professionals

profession means payed job. what would you pay in? probably food, favours. I don't know if I would exactly consider transactions the same back then as I do now.

Its a dumb question anyway because of having to define so many things and the fact that you can never find the truth anyway.

>itt: people who don't know what profession means

Prostitution already presupposes a level of social stratification that precludes it being the first profession. You can't be a prostitute in a small tribal community where everyone knows other. In such a community if you're a woman and you're not taken, the men will just have their way with you, no need to exchange anything for it.

women trade sex for protection, food, etc.
boom there u go

>>2552409
This pretty much will BTFO anyone who says it is the oldest profession

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>>2552382
You may be right, but, more importantly, you are also autistic.