(10-29-2015, 02:01 PM)Setoh Aliapoh Wrote: I'm amused by the idea that dancers would by necessity also be prostitutes in any era other than the modern one. I'm more amused by the idea that other professions wouldn't be...Historically gladiators were absolutely prostitutes.
Nat came up with the idea of gladiators also being prostitutes a while ago. The idea makes total sense to me. Some muscular, skilled fighter in a light steel subligar in the fighting pits, body sheened with sweat and blood? They'd attract attention.
In our own history, actors have frequently been associated with prostitution. Why not in Eorzea, too?
Likewise musicians.
Likewise witches and sorceresses. Now there's an interesting idea. "There, sir. I've washed your wounds and aetherically healed them. Would you like a happy ending with that?"
They were slaves, but sort of like rock stars. The whole City of rome just watched some guy wreck it in the Arena, and then he stands there among the fallen, his rippling muschles covered in blood and sweat.
You can believe people paid shitloads of money to be the one who would fuck them right after the match. Gladiator training halls also often doubled as brothels.Â
I can imagine Ul'dah being the same way, and we can see how people like 'Franz the Fair' are sexual objects.
