This TikTok has been making the rounds and claims that all women in “ancient Babylon” had to submit themselves to being prostituted in a temple in some city called “Mylitta”.
It seems pretty tenuous considering his source is Herodotus and he is wearing a novelty Trojan helmet, but am willing to be proved wrong!
Until recently this was argued by many scholars to have been real, but now that view has come under a lot of criticism. In this thread, u/Bentresh quotes from an important expert on the subject and links to another answer by u/Naugrith