Ascetic and Erotic Culture of Courtesans in the Ancient World : reveals a practical and balanced modern view of the secret art and history of the world harlotry. In this book, we shall use the word ‘Courtesan’, known in the world for several millennia, bring us a different views of their life, the world, and oneself which is at once new and archaic, erotic yet very close to the roots of each of us. It is discipline of the profession of women’s sacredness and magic of the sexual act, but of life itself.

This book carries of the theme of ‘Ascetic and Erotic Culture of Courtesans in the Ancient World’, which is based on directly study of the philosophy, and science of erotics. It has attained the stature of world literary classic work. However, this volume is not designed to contribute to the solution of historical problem not is it an attempt at popularising the courtesan cultural in writings. However, it’s sketches the picture of remote past with the view of making it bear upon the the living present and become a factor in the formation of the future.

The bulk of its contents is derived from the history, religious narratives most of epic and literally canon including myths. Many passages, and indeed the most important one and literally copies in translation from the original texts ; some are rendered freely ; or have been rewriting ; and still others are abbreviated.

The definition of Courtesan or Prostitute and Prosrtitution is a different one question over which legislators of many lands of ancient Nation differed. Hence, we have confined ourselves to the ‘Old World’, by which we mean the geo-passages of Afro-Asia, i.e. Sumer, Egypt and part of Greece where the Biblic candle was lighted. Arabia, Persia and Syria where Islam blazed its trail, are also included with the Hindu Indian enriched mediaeval period in history of literary source about Courtesans cultural. The contribution of ancient China and the Far East unique and improve method of feeding the Chinese community, more leisure was a accumulated to indulge in activities which were secretly related to production.

Prosrtitution, as we have sought to show, has in every civilized country a distinct history of its own. In order to understand the place of Prosrtitution in our existing system and to cope more successfully with this ancient evil, it may well reply a perusal of this history so that one may look back to its inglorious past and carefully analysis all the facts and factors that have gone to give an incentive or modify this ignoble ‘sale of the sweet name of love.’

Prosrtitution is almost as old as human civilization of the ancient world, presents us with an extensive account of the rise and development of Prosrtitution here. Like it’s cultural history and political chronology, the latter is sometimes wrapped up in obscurity and at other buried in allegorical legends and traditional folk-lores, not to speak of the many material that could furnish and connecting links to the antiquarian being lost through the inadvertence of ages or remaining still unexpected.

We have also endeavoured to chalk out a morphology and an etiology of Prosrtitution, considering all the whole that it has been an infectious social malady breaking out in an epidemic form under varying conditions and diverse aspects, and leaving our more advanced brethren in a position to think out of themselves it’s prognosis and a course of rational and cautious treatment.

Many modern Anthropologist and Sociologist have proved not without reason that Prosrtitution is an essential constituent of the whole marriage system as it appears to-day and was the indirect result of the gradual development of the family on a patriarchal and mostly monogamic basis. It is for one to consider whether it may be accepted as a promise with which to work out the problem with any hope of success.

It needs must be mentioned here that in one view, the institution of Prosrtitution is the creation of a set of men born with a superabundance of sexual passion and a society dominated by males who have utilised the noblest  and handsomest handiwork of God not for the harmonious reciprocation of love, but for the satisfaction of their savage lust. Man, since the dawn of civilization, has, by dint of his higher physical capacity and a stronger intellectual acumen, tried with a vengeance as it were, to project his wanton sexual nature on the character of women.

Famous Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam says :

Who dares call you a harlot,

mother, who dares spit on your body?

Perhaps a mother as chaste

as Sita has nursed you by her breast-milk,

You may not be chaste but

all the same belong to the

          race of mother and sisters,

your son’s are the likes of us,

            our Kingsman they are ;

They are capable of winning

fame, repute and respect

            just as ourselves,

Their dedication can reach

straight unto the inner gates of heaven !

          [ Barangana :  Translated by Basudha Chakraborty. Sahitya Akademi. New Delhi (1974) ]

While erecting a strong fencing of moral integrity around his own hearth and home, he wanted to abandon himself to the most shameless caresses of a set of women, who would hire out their bodies at all times for some sordid gain. This desideratum went a long way in setting up the institution of Prosrtitution which, eventually in the interest of a higher demand of civilization, was branded by many with a hot iron of infamy and accredited by some as ‘safeguard to be chastity of matrons and maidan.

When Solon was laying foundation-stone of a palatial public brothel in the very heart of Athens amidst a pompous state ceremony, it may be said to the credit of India that she was seriously thinking about the means and method of how best to combat this fell pestilence of social life. It several operation of immortal Traffic Laws in the right earnest long before the Julian Law of Justinian codes were given birth to the another part of the civilized world Segregation in the modern sense of the term of the basis of regulation and conscription was unnecessary in India, as syphilis was unknown in the country of the Old World before the fifteenth century.

With these accounts way be intrigued, carry on illicit love but intrinsic beautiful and charming life stories, and inside histories of the above stories by some of the antedate anonymous or some of the greatest authorities of all time world-wide, will definitely be leave you the memorable, lingering touch of romance. [ Read more:  Ascetic and Erotic Culture of Courtesans in the Ancient World ].