> Having said that, I agree with Trotsky that a small community cannot
> support such people. Especially if they are breaking taboos.
An interesting example occurs in the David Gemmel se4ries, umm, sword in the storm, hawk in shadow? Anyway, this is a very celtic society confronted by a Rome equivalent ("Stone") as part of Gemmels multiverse construction. They are pretty good I think, and used the convention of the "Earth Maiden" as the village prostitute/earth priestess. This sounds like a plausible arrangement to me. Prsotitution is often tied up with religious institutions, which sometimes serves to declare the act holy rather than profane, and thus not a challenge to marriage vows.
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