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Economics: Sex Workers: Iran: Early Modern (up to ca. 1900)
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Prostitution in premodern and early modern Iran was widespread, although how widespread is difficult to say because the issue is complicated by the absence of a clear distinction between outright prostitution and the widely practiced institution of temporary marriage,
mutʿa . Sex work ranged from sophisticated courtesans charging their elite clients astronomical sums to receive them in their lavish mansions or riding to their clients' homes accompanied by servants, to street walkers made avail able by female brokers in market squares, to destitute w…
