[139] In Abyssinia (according to Fiaschi, British Medical Journal, March 13, 1897), where prostitution has always been held in high esteem, the prostitutes, who are now subject to medical examination twice a week, still attach no disgrace to their profession, and easily find husbands afterwards.  Potter (Sohrab and Rustem, pp. 168 et seq.) gives references as regards peoples, widely dispersed in the Old World and the New, among whom the young women have practiced prostitution to obtain a dowry.

[140] At Tralles, in Lydia, even in the second century A.D., as Sir W.M.  Ramsay notes (Cities of Phrygia, vol. i, pp. 94, 115), sacred prostitution was still an honorable practice for women of good birth who “felt themselves called upon to live the divine life under the influence of divine inspiration.”

[141] The gradual secularization of prostitution from its earlier religious form has been traced by various writers (see, e.g., Dupouey, La Prostitution dans l’Antiquite).  The earliest complimentary reference to the Hetaira in literature is to be found, according to Benecke (Antimachus of Colophon, p. 36), in Bacchylides.

[142] Cicero, Oratio pro Coelio, Cap.  XX.

[143] Pierre Dufour, Histoire de la Prostitution, vol. ii, Chs.  XIX-XX.  The real author of this well-known history of prostitution, which, though not scholarly in its methods, brings together a great mass of interesting information, is said to be Paul Lacroix.

[144] Rabutaux, in his Histoire de la Prostitution en Europe, describes many attempts to suppress prostitution; cf.  Dufour, op. cit., vol. iii.

[145] Dufour, op. cit., vol. vi, Ch.  XLI.  It was in the reign of the homosexual Henry III that the tolerance of brothels was established.

[146] In the eighteenth century, especially, houses of prostitution in Paris attained to an astonishing degree of elaboration and prosperity.  Owing to the constant watchful attention of the police a vast amount of detailed information concerning these establishments was accumulated, and during recent years much of it has been published.  A summary of this literature will be found in Duehren’s Neue Forshungen ueber den Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit, 1904, pp. 97 et seq.

[147] Rabutaux, op. cit., p. 54.

[148] Calza has written the history of Venetian prostitution; and some of the documents he found have been reproduced by Mantegazza, Gli Amori degli Uomimi, cap.  XIV.  At the beginning of the seventeenth century, a comparatively late period, Coryat visited Venice, and in his Crudities gives a full and interesting account of its courtesans, who then numbered, he says, at least 20,000; the revenue they brought into the State maintained a dozen galleys.

[149] J. Schrank, Die Prostitution in Wien, Bd.  I, pp. 152-206.

[150] U. Robert, Les Signes d’Infamie au Moyen Age, Ch.  IV.