Comments by "Miguel D Lewis" (@MiguelDLewis) on "FORGOTTEN HISTORY"
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The "enslavement of animals" is an oxymoron to my Judeochristian philosophy. Those of us who have the Messiah as our Lord and King have dominion over the animals, going back to the first man, Adam. Hindus, Buddhists, and other Sanatan philosophies might see humans and animals as equals but those same philosophies are extremely anti-black. Hindus worship cows while at the same time enslaving their black, untouchable caste. Buddhists abstain from meat while at the same time claiming black people will never be reincarnated as Buddhas.
You seem to draw a clear distinction between natural and unnatural, ancient and modern. Milton Freidman once said that hunting with a spear is a form of capitalism. So, with that in mind, it's safe to say that the Oxford definition is correct, and that hunting is a job. If you disagree, take it up with Oxford.
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@Terry-Hesticle Animals can have professions too. I own a guard dog, for example. I used to own a hunting dog before that. And even before then, I owned a cat to kill the mice in my yard. Animals can be hunters, gatherers, agriculturists, police officers (K9), health professionals (emotional support animal, seeing eye dog, etc), and even military operators. The Medjay of Egypt and Kush used to employ War Elephants and Russia had Navy Dolphins. So using animals as an example doesn't work as they have multiple professions, including hunting and gathering.
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@lilamayoral1031 "Prostitution" seems to be a modern innovation also. Historically, male and female "sacred prostitutes" working in temples would use sex as a way to channel spirits. Ishtar cults did this in Gobekli Tepe, where male priests would dress as women and ritualistically sell their bodies. Indus Valley cultures did something similar in their Shakti/Shiva cult, to channel Kundalini. They called this ritual "Maithuna".
Impoverished girls and women generally lacked the autonomy necessary to sell themselves. So, men enslaved them and sold them to wealthy families, who then may or may not have used them as sex slaves or hired sex servants. In early Fertile Crescent civilizations, wealthy men and women could buy poor, young girls/women and use them however they wished, even if they were hired and not enslaved. Even wealthy women would force the poor boys and young men they hired into sex. But boys and men are harder to control so they would often fight off their weaker, female masters. So, there was a thin line between a slave and an indentured servant.
Some feminists today might even consider some arranged marriages as sex slavery, especially if the husband pays a dowry to the bride's father.
On the other hand, the Philistines in antiquity used to employ harlots as assassins and spies to seduce the Egyptian and Israelite men they were warring against. Egyptian/Israelites would do something similar to their opponents during war. And Egyptian/Israelite Pharaohs would buy hundreds of concubines from all over Africa, Asia, and Europe. Japanese samurai did something similar with their Oiran/Geisha, and these women would also work as kunoichi; a form of weaponized prostitution. Oiran/geisha grew in power though, allowing for the emergence of brothels. Kunoichi used these brothels to spy on political opponents of the shogun and employ sexual blackmail.
However, there was no specific class of "sex slave" then either. Someone sold into slavery for agriculture/housework may also have been forced into sex slavery. The Spartans, Romans, Vikings, and other European warrior cultures used the girls/women they kidnapped in a raid however they wished. So did the Azande, Aztecs, Dahomey, Comanche, Apache, etc. Vikings and Azande would force themselves on the men they captured as a sign of dominance.
Sexual slavery as a specialization seems to coincide with the rise of odalisques, sold to harems of the Islamic Caliphate. But these women were considered as "concubines"; high-ranking officials and merchants of the Caliphate would own them for life or forcibly marry them polygamously. Sharia Law allows this sex slavery loophole.
From this, two things emerged: the barbary pirates and industrialization. Barbary pirates would kidnap people en masse specifically for sex; most often girls and women but also young boys. Around this same time, the industrialization of North Atlantic civilization caused a mass migration of people from the countryside into the cities. Once impoverished peasants became wealthy enough to afford a "concubine", leading to the democratization of the harem and the rise of the stereotypical, streetwalking "prostitute". These women were vulnerable though, and high-profile cases like Jack the Ripper encouraged pimps to emerge and take the role that the barbary pirates took. So, the pimp and the prostitute both seem to have developed gradually alongside each other throughout history.
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