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===Aztec=== Much evidence for the religious practices of the [[Aztec]] culture was destroyed during the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire|Spanish conquest]], and almost the only evidence for the practices of their religion is from Spanish accounts. The Franciscan Spanish Friar [[Bernardino de Sahagún]] learned their language and spent more than 50 years studying the culture. He wrote that they participated in religious festivals and rituals, as well as performing sexual acts as part of religious practice. This may be evidence for the existence of sacred prostitution in Mesoamerica, or it may be either confusion, or accusational polemic. He also speaks of kind of prostitutes named ''ahuianime'' ("pleasure girls"), whom he described as "an evil woman who finds pleasure in her body... [A] dissolute woman of debauched life."{{sfn|Bernardino de Sahagún|1982|pp=55–56}} It is agreed that the Aztec god [[Xochipili]] (taken from both [[Toltec]] and Maya cultures) was both the patron of homosexuals and homosexual prostitutes.{{sfn|Trexler|1995|pp=132–133}}{{sfn|Keen|1990|p=97}}{{sfn|Estrada|2003|pp=10–14}}{{sfn|Taylor|1987|p=87}} [[Xochiquetzal]] was worshiped as goddess of sexual power, patroness of prostitutes and artisans involved in the manufacture of luxury items.{{sfn|Clendinnen|1991|p=163}}{{sfn|Miller|Taube|1993|p=190}}{{sfn|Smith|2003|p=203}}
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