High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is the practice of having sexual intercourse for a religious or sacred purpose. A person engaged in such practices is sometimes called a temple prostitute or hierodule, though modern connotations of the term prostitute may or may not be appropriate, given the religious and cultural signification of the activities. Sacred prostitution is often held to have been widespread across the Ancient Near East. The Canaanite equivalent of Ishtar was Astarte, and according to the contemporary Christian writer Eusebius temple prostitution was still being carried on in the Phoenician cities of Aphaca and Heliopolis (Baalbek) until closed down by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD.

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