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Hey, it's your girl simply Shunika, and you are now listening to The Goddess Confessions.

For centuries, the word whore has been used to silence, degrade, and sever women from their own power.

But before patriarchy rewrote the story of the feminine, there were cultures that knew what we've been conditioned to forget.

A woman's sensual power was sacred.

Today, the word prostitute still triggers judgment, discomfort, and shame, but the sacred

prostitute was not a sinner. She worked alongside other priestesses in temples, performing rituals

that blended sexuality with spirit, body with soul, masculine with feminine. A woman rooted in her own power is difficult to manipulate.

She doesn't chase approval or perform for safety.

She doesn't break at the first sign of rejection.

That's what made her dangerous, not her body, but what it represented, awakening.

So her temples were destroyed.

Her rituals were banned. Her knowledge was

reframed as sinful and evil. And in her place came systems designed to control women through shame,

marriage contracts, virginity tests, purity culture. Cultures that still honored the feminine were

violently suppressed.

The fear passed down.

Mothers began teaching their daughters to play small,

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