Aphrodite's Trade

In "Aphrodite's Trade" Southern historian and award-winning Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the biological foundations of prostitution among early humans to its sacred functions in the religions of the ancient world, then onto its vital role as a commercialized occupation in the 21st Century. Basing his findings on well established primatological, anthropological, sociobiological, mythological, and archaeological data, he reveals what few have dared contemplate: because prostitution began as a survival mechanism among our ancestors several million years ago, it is literally part of our DNA. Rather than expending valuable resources trying to suppress it, the author argues, society would be much better off understanding, accepting, and decriminalizing it. Foreword by Xaviera Hollander, author of the international blockbuster "The Happy Hooker." Back cover blurbs by Margo St. James (founder of COYOTE and St. James Infirmary), Carol Leigh (cofounder of ACT UP), Norma Jean Almodovar (founder of ISWFACE), and Dolores French (founder of HIRE). Lochlainn Seabrook is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Known as the "American Robert Graves" after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, the descendant of numerous Goddess-worshiping European kings and queens, and the author of over thirty popular adult and children's books, including "Britannia Rules: Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society"; "The Book of Kelle: An Introduction to Goddess-Worship and the Great Celtic Mother-Goddess Kelle"; "Christmas Before Christianity: How the Birthday of the 'Sun' Became the Birthday of the 'Son'"; "The Goddess Dictionary of Words and Phrases"; "Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Unexplained From Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House!"; "Lincolnology: The Real Abraham Lincoln Revealed in His Own Words"; "A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest"; "The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study"; and "Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask A Southerner!"