The World of Courtesans c5.3

c5.3

In Buddhist literature women receive full attention. The general concept of the housewife is that she should be blessed with an equable, obedient temperament. She was expected to be sweet of speech, fair and renowned, capable of bearing a huge family, and of course, subservient to the wishes of her lord. We read, however, that for rich men a woman was nothing more than an instrument of pleasure and for an average householder she was merely the producer of a large family.