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Oldest profession in the world
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.goldenboy has a point. Perhaps the original ladies weren't paid with money but with, say, some nice wheat - which would mean the agriculture was also a for-profit business. It's a two-way trade, after all.
As to what actually constitutes a profession here's wikipedia
Waldo, if that rib business was renamed 'cloning' would it sound more plausible?
Adam and Eve may be a myth, but that's not the same as a fairytale; it does in essence recall the era when humans became agrarian. The Israelites, who went on the move a lot, may have looked back with nostalgia to an era when people were settled on their own land, and have been creating a myth about how it ended for them. (I'm guessing here; but a lot of the Old Testament is about God punishing people for disobeying him.)
Jno, the rib bit is not really important!
If your assertation is correct - it is a myth about when the Israelites became agrarian - does it not suppose they did something before? Moreover, the Israelites weren't the only people around, so why does the oldest profession have to come from their culture?
Prostitution is often described as "the world's oldest profession".
This is dubious, as prostitution (at least in the modern sense) cannot have emerged before the emergence of money, which can only have taken place after the emergence of several trades, and it has been claimed that midwives are really the world's oldest profession.
However, prostitution has been noted in Bonobo chimpanzee behavior based around access to food and gifts of food, and in penguins in regard to access for suitable stones for nest building.
One of the first forms of prostitution was sacred prostitution starting perhaps with Babylon, where each woman had to reach, once in their lives, the sanctuary of Militta (Aphrodites or Nana/Anahita) and there have sex with a foreigner as a sign of hospitality for a symbolic price.