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    The Oldest Profession

    1967 · Comedy · 1h 37m

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  1. The oldest profession in the world (or the world's oldest profession) is a phrase that, unless another meaning is specified, refers to prostitution. However, it did not start to acquire that meaning until 1889, after a Rudyard Kipling story, and it did not do so universally until after World War I. Formerly, various professions vied for the ...

    • Toolmaker. Originated: 2.6 million years ago. Country of Origin: Gona, Ethiopia. Current Salary: $39K – $75K. photo source: Wikimedia Commons. The earliest human ancestors began making stone tools about 2.6 million years ago, which means that toolmaker is the oldest profession in the world.
    • Hunter/Butcher. Originated: disputed but estimated to be over 1.8 million years ago. Country of Origin: Tanzania. Current Salary: $21K – $46K (Butcher) photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
    • Clothier/Tailor. Originated: between 100,000 – 500,000 years ago. Country of Origin: somewhere in Africa. Current Salary: $21K – $60K. photo source: PublicDomainPictures.net.
    • Storyteller. Originated: estimated at less than 200,000 years ago. Country of Origin: somewhere in Africa. Current Salary: $21K – $132K (Writer/Author) photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Mar 8, 2024 · The ladies belonged to what has been called “the oldest profession in the world,” a profession which is carried on in Piccadilly, Regent-street, and other parts of modern London with great energy every night; and the men were the male parallels of that particular class.

  3. Mar 29, 2024 · Healer. The treatment of injury and disease has been a concern for humans since our earliest beginnings. While the profession of the physician as we know it today did not emerge until relatively recently in history, the role of the healer is one of the oldest and most universal human occupations.

  4. The Oldest Profession (French: Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde) is a 1967 internationally co-produced comedy film. It features contributions from six different film directors, each one doing a segment on prostitution through the ages.

  5. Mar 9, 2021 · The originator of the phrase “the world's oldest profession” was Rudyard Kipling. His 1888 story about a prostitute begins, “Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.”

  6. Aug 22, 2011 · Nearly 2 million years ago, it seems the original naked chef was cooking up a storm. Homo erectus, the extinct hominid that’s a mere branch or so away from humans on the family tree, was the ...

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