Publisher's Synopsis
In Aphrodite's Trade: The Hidden History of Prostitution Unveiled, 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, Col. Seabrook 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 time, money, and resources trying to suppress it, the scholar argues, society would today actually benefit by understanding, accepting, and decriminalizing it.
The foreword is by Xaviera Hollander, author of the worldwide bestseller 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). Aphrodite's Trade is available in paperback and hardcover.
LOCHLAINN SEABROOK, winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, is a popular Civil War scholar, Bible authority, and libertarian-conservative historian who has written and edited nearly 100 books in numerous genres, from history, politics, and science, to nature, religion, and the paranormal. Known as the "American Robert Graves" and the "Southern Joseph Campbell" for his many works on spirituality, mythology, thealogy, and theology, Seabrook is a seventh generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage, a Kentucky Colonel, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, and a descendant of numerous Goddess-worshiping European kings and queens. His adult and children's books have introduced hundreds of thousands to truths that have been left out of our mainstream books. Seabrook has a forty-five year background in American history, Southern history, and Bible studies, and is the author of the international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
Colonel Seabrook's other titles include: Seabrook's Bible Dictionary of Traditional and Mystical Christian Doctrines; 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; The Goddess Dictionary of Words and Phrases; Princess Diana: Modern Day Moon-Goddess - A Psychoanalytical and Mythological Look at Diana Spencer's Life, Marriage, and Death (with Dr. Jane Goldberg); Jesus and the Gospel of Q; The Bible and the Law of Attraction; Christ Is All and In All: Rediscovering Your Divine Nature and the Kingdom Within; The Bittersweet Bond: Race Relations in the Old South as Described by White and Black Southerners; The Martian Anomalies: A Photographic Search for Intelligent Life on Mars; Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Unexplained From Tennessee's Most Haunted Civil War House!; UFOs and Aliens: The Complete Guidebook.
