>>104189462>https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+1.199According to Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Babylonian women from all social strata engaged in a practice where they would go to the temple of Ishtar and wait for the first stranger to approach them. He would offer her money to sleep with her and it would be her scared duty to accept. Attractive women wouldn't have to stay for long but unattractive women supposedly were stuck in those temples for years.
Assuming you believe this guy, and there's evidence a lot of his contemporary Hellenes looked at his writings with a side-eye, there's a funny bit of historical echo here. All those simps today giving superchats and dropping gift subs/mems might be unconsciously channeling a lingering sentiment in the human gestalt consciousness, from thousands of years in the past.
