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googled about chinese courtesans and read this paragraph
>Unlike in our own time, prostitution in China was not just about sex. Not a furtive encounter in a hotel room arranged from a payphone but a leisurely orchestrated mutual seduction in which the attraction was not a bulging chest but elegant conversation and artistic accomplishment. Actual sex might follow a lengthy and extremely expensive courtship by the customer involving gifts of jewelry, lavish banquets, gambling parties and other events put on by the prostitution house. During this, the mingji who had captured the customer’s fancy teased his lust into frenzy not only by flirtatious expressions and body language but also by artistic accomplishments such as composing poems, playing on the pipa or qin, and demonstrating calligraphy.
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