The
possible circumstances of the formation of escort trade in the past
In the past, the
formation of escort trade was due to women hoping to get out of the dark pit of
prostitution. For this reason, ingenious escorts needed more than just a good business
sense and sensitivity to perceive the market gap. As it has been already
mentioned above, the escorts of the past were wise, intellectual and educated
women, who became an escort in order to achieve success in their lives. From
this point of view, there is some similarity between today and ancient escorts,
with the major difference that today the profession no longer requires the wide
knowledge that ancient escorts used to have. However, the purpose of becoming
an escort is similar: finding the way out of poverty, accumulating material
goods, acquiring a carefree life.
Looking back on
this again it has to be emphasized that being an escort in the past was a kind
of special and privileged role. This is unimaginable in today's world, today's
way of thinking, as well as that an escort being able to gain political
position, advisory roles and rights to have a say in political matters. Besides,
an ancient escort was also happy to be a celebrity in the contemporary society.
The fact how this kind of cult evolved about the ancient escorts is
unfortunately unknown. Researchers conclude that politics and politicians played
the greatest role in the formation of the cult, in which the escorts were the
perfect divas, enticers, wise women who worked on various interests, collected
information and mostly manipulated influential men. The more famous an escort
was, the more attractive, the more exclusive she became, so she was allowed to
enter influential circles.
At these times, escorts
were not mass produced for the luxury sex industry, even though prostitution
was completely legal and accepted. To the contrary of the present escort system,
that is, how someone becomes an escort, when it is almost enough for a girl to
find a target country where prostitution and escort business is legal, where she’ll
look for a media platform (online escort sites, magazines, escort forums) where
she can advertise herself and her sexual services and then all she’ll need to
do is to wait for sex-client, well, in the past the way to become an escort was
a lot longer and way more difficult.
So far the
breath-taking knowledge has been mentioned as a vital thing for a girl to be
allowed to enter the world of escorts. Of course, that was not enough, as an
escort’s first and the main characteristic was the fascinating beauty. The ancient
authors described the beauty of contemporary escorts as something that
literally froze the people walking in the streets and had a chance to see them.
That is, en escort in the ancient times was also the embodiment of the perfect
female ideal, the woman who can be had by someone who outbid the others. That
is why it was inconceivable that a man who was not a member of the noble society
could get an escort. Nowadays, this is not the case, as customers no longer
need to have significant fortune to date with an escort. However, if we think
of the price of escort time, it is not a cheap thing to buy, that is, to take
an escort for a rendezvous. In addition, if we look at the current star escorts
such as Michelle Braunm, Natalie McLennan, Ms. Maya Blue, they may ask for five
or ten thousand dollars for a whole night out escort meeting.
It is another
great and open question of becoming an escort in the ancient times that what
were the first steps that an escort had to take in the escort profession.
Because the system at that time did not provide education free of charge, so if
someone wanted to be educated, they needed to invest heavily in their education.
The situation of women was even more difficult in this respect, as the
acquisition of knowledge was primarily a privilege for men. It is therefore possible
to presume that most of the escorts started off as prostitutes in some famous
brothel. The next and most controversial theory is that the escorts began as virgin
priestesses where they had the opportunity to learn and to appear in important societal
circles.
In spite of our
lack of information, however, we know for sure: ancient escorts would
accumulate considerable fortune by the end of their lives, and after they gave
up the escort profession, they married men of wealth and importance.