AHC Using the 800s as a starting date, Prostitution and pornography legal and mainstream worldwide

The challenge if you choose to accept it, is to make Prostitution and pornography legal and accepted in every country.

The following rules for this challenge are as followed.

1. 800s is the earliest start date one can use.

2. Solutions must not be ASB, as in solutions that would be virtually impossible to happen. This means no sudden Roman Hellenic revival or something else just as implausible

3. Prostitution and pornography must be legal with little desire re-criminalize in every country by 2018

4. No people acting out of character. As in no suddenly getting someone who was staunchly puritan to change their mind unless such a mind changing has a reasonable cause and effect behind it

5. Go wild otherwise. Use whatever scenarios you need in that huge time period and make it as extensive as you want. The more detail the better :)

Cheers
 
It's already legal (with some tweaks depending on the local legislation) in pretty much all western nations, except for the US.
 
"It's already legal (with some tweaks depending on the local legislation) in pretty much all western nations, except for the US."

:p Luckily this AHC isn't just talking about Western nations
 
To be honest, starting in the 800's, you could have the Aztec rule Mars and human sacrifice be legal everywhere...
 
"It's already legal (with some tweaks depending on the local legislation) in pretty much all western nations, except for the US."

:p Luckily this AHC isn't just talking about Western nations

Have a Federal Law legalizing it. Mass Media will do the rest.
 
Does it have to specifically be legal? I can easily see (it occurred otl) the Abbasid hegemony simply ignoring prostitution for the most part. An issue, is that divorce was never near an issue for the Islamic authorities as it was for Catholicism; thus the traditional European reasoning of allowing prostitution to offset divorce, was never present.

However, the simple inability or lack of interest is a good start for maintaining prostitution in the Abbasid period as with otl. Prostitution could become more prevalent also, with less multi wife marriages and or, less men. Traditionally also, a hindrance in prostitution profitability was slave concubines. During the Abbasid period, slaves were very common commodity and one of their most common uses was that of domestic labor, which included sexual relations with their master, at least often. This practice of sleeping with slave women was disliked, but permissible. Soldiery were even greater practitioners of this than others, as they were allowed the women that they captured in war to be slave concubines and it not affect ones marriage status legally or spiritually.

The other aspect, is if the Abbasid rulers for one reason or another, allows Mu’tah. That being, a temporary marriage contract. Otl, this practice was banned by the Abbasid authorities as fornication, however, it was readily practiced by Shi’i. This could count towards a form of legalized prostitution?

It should be noted, Muslim prostitutes have the added benefit of being totally covered by a niqab and thus can blend in with non prostitute women much easier than other cultures.

Pornography, I would say is impossible. Picture painting was almost totally prohibited at the time and cannot see it making gains even if allowed. If the law did not prohibit picture painting, the overlying culture and milieu would suppress it due to the outright taboo of painting images. It would be a difficult enough work to make picture painting legal and common, much less pornography.
 
I think prostitution was (at least de facto) legal in pretty much all of Europe until 19th-century moralism came into vogue. Dunno about pornography, though.
 
Would it be ASB to insert a sex-positive prophet back in the day and give that person more widespread influence? Perhaps give Jesus a more sex-positive message based on Jewish teachings that sex is a good deed and pleases God (with some restrictions on it like adultery, rape, exploitation, doing it excessively, etc.)
 
World of Rice and Salt the Abrahamic world, while having Hindu India become the cultural center and main colonizing power of the world. That way, the road is open for the route of temple prostitutes becoming mainstream
 
Easy. The Chinese empires dominate the world and set cultural norms.

Now this doesn't mean it's a feminist society...
 
Would it be ASB to insert a sex-positive prophet back in the day and give that person more widespread influence? Perhaps give Jesus a more sex-positive message based on Jewish teachings that sex is a good deed and pleases God (with some restrictions on it like adultery, rape, exploitation, doing it excessively, etc.)
That's basically the islamic view.
 

BlondieBC

Banned
I think prostitution was (at least de facto) legal in pretty much all of Europe until 19th-century moralism came into vogue. Dunno about pornography, though.

I would argue that if we use the defacto standard, in the USA it is pretty legal. We just crack down on street walkers and a few websites.
 

BlondieBC

Banned
Would it be ASB to insert a sex-positive prophet back in the day and give that person more widespread influence? Perhaps give Jesus a more sex-positive message based on Jewish teachings that sex is a good deed and pleases God (with some restrictions on it like adultery, rape, exploitation, doing it excessively, etc.)

Sure. Just have more focus on Song of Solomon at some point in church history.
 
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