The autonomy of sex workers which we can't handle!
The social practices were deemed pitiful by European missionaries because they could not marry, and so to mainstream them. In Victorian times, various legal measures were used to get them to marry. Basically, they have to take the surnames of their husbands, which is what civilized women do, and let men manage their property with marriage, property could only be passed on through husbands to sons. Ancient temples were managed by downsizing and peace, but this law purged the impure women and held the men to get full control