Herodotus

Herodotus on Babylonian "Sacred Prostitution"

Herodotus, Book I, para 199

"There is one custom amongst these people which is wholly shameful: every woman who is a native of the country must once in her life go and sit in the temple of Aphrodite [Ishtar] and there give herself to a strange man." 

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