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