[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The World of Courtesans](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973) › c8.187 # The World of Courtesans c8.187 The World of Courtesans c8.187 - **Language:** English ### [c8.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.187) All courtesans could not attract youthful clients. Courtesans themselves had to be endowed with beauty and sweet speech. They had to learn to appraise the beauty of a client and had themselves to be versed in the arts and varieties of love-making. They had to learn to be successful participants in \*goshthi\*. Physical defects, such as suffering from a wasting disease, were considered shortcomings in a lover. A lover who was attached to his own wife, cruel, sly and miserly in his conduct, or a lover who was a thief and fond of seducing others etc., was regarded with suspicion by courtesans. - [Previous: c8.186](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.186) - [Next: c8.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.188) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.187) · Pramāṇa