Dragaera

Jhereg and prostitution

Sun Aug 31 15:35:58 PDT 2003


K Kuhn wrote:
> Damien Sullivan wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:23:20PM +0000, jetdragon at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>don't actually know since I've only been here two weeks). Actually relating
>>>to the Dragaeran attitude, I seem to recall in _Teckla_ Vlad said that
>>>Dragaerans don't consider prostitution to be a bad thing, or something
>>>similar.
>>
>>To the annoyance of Cawti when he brought it up...
> 
> 
> One question - if that's the case, why do the Jhereg run the
> whorehouses?   The Jhereg seem to be most interested in those businesses
> which the Empire has passed laws against, as those seem to have the best
> rates of return.

Or the ones that are heavily taxed. It could well be that it is like 
gambling (and possibly all such 'luxury entatainments') and the 
government takes a fairly high cut from the 'legal' establishments.

Cawti's issue may indicate that easterners/humans have a different 
opinion on such thing than Dragaerans or that the types of brothals you 
get in the easterner quarter are the nasty type where it is little more 
than enforced slavery rather than the 'life-style choice' type brothals 
one would hope for/expect where it is seen as a valid profession. Or a 
combination of the two.

;-)

Fides