Note 133 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

In this connection are adduced the cases in which courtesans have been held in high esteem, sometimes in higher regard than married women, as in Athens and India: Giraud-Teulon, Les origines du mariage, 43-45; Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 132, 133, 537, 538; Post, Geschlechtsgenoss., 31; Schroeder, Das Recht in der geschlechtlichen Ordnung, 244 ff.; Bernhöft, "Zur Gesch. des eur. Familienrechts," ZVR., VIII, 172-74; Kohler, "Ueber das Negerrecht," ibid., XI, 419; Westermarck, op. cit., 61 ff., 80, 81, who denies the inference of promiscuity from this custom and mentions many low tribes among whom chastity is observed. Cf. Friedrichs, in ZVR., VIII, 374 ff.; Schneider, Die Naturvölker, II, 473, 474, who ascribes the custom to religious impulse—the consecration of virgins to the cult of Aphrodite.

The custom, found among Egyptians, Tibetans, Wotjäken, American Indians, and other peoples, permitting girls freely to prostitute themselves before marriage is similarly put in evidence: Herodotus, II, 121, 124, 125, 126; IV, 176; V, 6; Post, Grundlagen, 187; Geschlechtsgenoss., 29-31; Familienrecht, 346; Buch, Die Wotjäken, 45 ff.; Kohler, in ZVR., V, 335 (Wotjäken); Bernhöft, op. cit., 165, 166; Giraud-Teulon, op. cit., 52, 53; Unger, Die Ehe, 12, 13; Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 220 ff., 343; Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 112, 113 (Africa); Ratzel, Hist. of Mankind, II, 128 (Brazil and ancient Peru); Pratz, Hist. de la Louisiane, II, 386 (Natches Indians); Stevenson, in XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 19, 20 (the Sia); Turner, ibid. XI, 189 (the Innuit).