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No Israelite woman shall be a prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a prostitute.

Deuteronomy 23:18

קדש, a male sleeping promiscuously with women without bothering to marry them. Since the women in question do not sleep with him exclusively they are not even concubines.

Rashbam on Deuteronomy 23:18:2

THERE SHALL BE NO ‘K’DEISHAH’ OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL — “one who is devoted to and always prepared for illicit intercourse. NOR SHALL THERE BE A ‘KADEISH’ OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL — one who is always prepared for pederasty.” This is Rashi’s language. Now, if this prohibition constitutes an admonition against the woman so engaged and warns her against being “devoted to and always prepared for illicit intercourse,” then an unmarried woman who has [illicit] intercourse with a man unpremeditatedly and secretly is not among those guilty of transgressing a negative commandment! So also in the matter…

Ramban on Deuteronomy 23:18:1

The houses devoted to pagan worship. The houses of lewdness.

Rashi on II Kings 23:7:1

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