hetero, geishas, ​​courtesans - such definitions usually given to women who wanted and were able to make their own visual appeal combined with a high level of intelligence of their profession, that is a means of securing such sustenance.The difference between them and ordinary prostitutes is proposed expanding their range of services.Normal "fallen woman" can not (or will not) provide the client with nothing but their bodies.To understand who this courtesan, can only be absorbed in the historical circumstances of the emergence of complex trades, sometimes bordering with art.
Antique Thais
In the old days, too, were a courtesan, but they were called differently - heterosexual.Their job was to deliver, in addition to bodily pleasures, and pleasures and spiritual.Among them were successful in the comments arising philosophical discussions, and the replica can be caustic.It truly wise man always gave particular pleasure to have a woman witty and ironic.And Sophocles and Plato and Epicurus were not alien to these pleasures, combining time together with sharpening the mind of his players, kept women, where they did not stint in their bounty.Best known in this field Aspasia, having achieved in the end what Pericles parted from his wife, with whom he lived for many years, and married her.Her enlightenment was so high that the philosophical lectures given by her, came Anaxagoras, Socrates and Euripides, obviously not without benefit to themselves.
Japanese geisha
make sense of such a courtesan who can be an example and a geisha.This venerable profession requires impeccable knowledge of etiquette that Japan successfully replaces the ability to conduct sophisticated debate, and in addition, the high intellectual level, combined with a refined taste.Japanese wife, recognizing the superiority of the geisha in these areas are not opposed to those of male weakness, treat them with understanding and can even boast of having a spouse so interesting friends, but with characteristic modesty of the people.After all, these are the facts reflects not only the sophistication of world perception of her husband, but his financial strength.Not everyone has a Japanese geisha, after all!
Institute of noble courtesans
greatest flowering of this phenomenon in France late XVIII and early XIX century, at least if you trust the classics of European literature.The Italian concept Cortigiane in Russian transcription sounds like "courtesan".Meaning of the word - "court", which alludes to a certain privileged status.Once upon a woman by a patron with whom, as it is now would say, it is to "make friends."The man who has sufficient resources shared with her not only by them.He confided courtesan and her thoughts, hopes and aspirations.In response, a man could get not only gratitude, compassion and warm-heartedness, but less pleasant things, such as treason or insidious accusations, but that only added to the severity of the relationship, and it lacked jaded nobles.
not to be subjected to such humiliation, the wise Alexander Dumas, for example, he voluntarily separated from his kept woman Marie Duplessis, realizing that "pulls" the burden of his "dear friend."
Paris, Paris ...
Parisian courtesan in general were a special sort of "live goods", though divided, in turn into two main sub-categories.The main features that distinguish them, of course, were the personal qualities.On how many knew this woman, whether she was younger and more beautiful than the other, and dependent on the price that men were willing to pay for her favor.Nobility of origin does not matter.Moreover, the researchers era know who this girl of firsthand agree that most of these women were born in poor families and all, to put it again in modern terms, "to strive for themselves."A striking example is the Celestine Venaria, the daughter of the worker, which in 14 years has engaged in prostitution, but, realizing the futility of this case (and after serving in prison), was the first actress, then the kept the Duke and later the Countess.Such is the career.
modern courtesan.Photo model
Do courtesan today?Perhaps that in the original sense of the word no.And it's not that there are no women in society with sufficient personal qualities, such as beauty and intelligence, and ready to achieve material well-being to sacrifice certain moral principles.Just ask them mass is difficult to call.In colloquial language, and press the word is sometimes used in the context of "Here billionaire tycoon (name), and next to him his courtesan."Photo, which shows the happy couple, is attached.But what the reader sees?A certain "modelka" with their feet on the molars, with a smile that you can tie a knot at the back, and the almost complete absence of mind on basic in pretty face.Who's that?Courtesan?No, just a kept woman, the board in her moment difficult choice to ask her "sponsor" will not, she and the countess never be.
