Love for Sale

The exchange of sex for money is often described as the first pfrofession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been an eternal index of changing notions of love, morality, and sexuality. In this book, Nils Ringdal delivers a magisterial - and extremely readable - world history of this most maligned, and most persistent, occupation.