Academic journal article Geopolitics, History and International Relations. The only available data on commercial sex workers are provided by a few NGOs that have conducted research programs with international financing Di Nicola et al. The study involved 61 CSW and focused on sexual behavior and treatment services. Some of the results showed that sexual relations occur in unsanitary rooms without hygienic conditions and no chance to wash after each sexual contact, www.
ARAS - database In accordance with Lasse Braun's History of Prostitution from Ancient Times until Today, and Michel Foucault , prostitution is considered one of the oldest professions in the world. First reported data about prostitution in various forms appear around BC Turcescu, The frescoes found in Mesopotamia around by French archaeologists show the variety of occupations for women in Sumer - Iraqi region today.
The frescoes dated BC display, among others, the poem: The Epic of Gilgamesh - based on oral traditions, preserved from the past. This poem presents the epic adventures of Gilgamesh, adventures about sexual freedoms in Uruk area, the Sumerian capital.
Here there appear the first description of the prostitutes' skills, and also the religious context in which the craft of prostitution was practiced.
In Israel, BC, King Solomon had around spouses and concubines, some of them practicing prostitution. In the time of ancient civilization, the first opposition to prostitution was shown by some rabbis of the "people of Israel" on the grounds that sex was impeding people from coming to religious service and that the money used to pay for various sexual services would better be donated as support for rabbis' activities.
