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What Paul Means in His Letters to the Roman Catholic Church
The contention is among some people that Paul describes and prohibits in certain of his letters in terms of that behavior where he's referencing some kind of as you say pediricity exploitative temple prostitution whatever well that's all completely different to what we consider to be lovely faithful. People have taken if you read not only the text I've referred to juvenile satas if you read Plutarch's Treat is on Love or Plato's Symposium which was written a few hundred years before Paul but it has all kinds of relations including long-term faithful stable partnerships so the rather trivial suggestion that oh this was all exploitative thing and now we have something quite different historically that won't work now let me say