When she has gone with him, and so satisfied the goddess, she returns home; and from that time forth no gift, however great, will prevail with her.

Such of the women as are tall and beautiful are soon released; but others, who are ugly, have to stay a long time before they can fulfil the law.

Some have even waited three or four years in the precinct." The demoralizing tendency of this religious prostitution can scarcely be overrated.
Notions of legal cleanliness and uncleanliness, akin to those prevalent among the Jews, are found to some extent in the religious system of the Babylonians.

The consummation of the marriage rite made both the man and the woman impure, as did every subsequent act of the same kind.
The impurity was communicated to any vessel that either might touch.

To remove it, the pair were required first to sit down before a censer of burning incense, and then to wash themselves thoroughly.