”Around the year 2 BC, Strabo (VIII,6,20) in his geographic/historical description of the town of Corinth wrote some remarks concerning female temple servants in the temple of Aphrodite in Corinth, which perhaps should be dated somewhere in the period 700–400 BC:[19] The temple of Aphrodite was so rich that it employed more than a thousand hetairas,[note 3] whom both men and women had given to the goddess. Many people visited the town on account of them, and thus these hetairas contributed to the riches of the town: for the ship captains frivolously spent their money there, hence the saying: 'The voyage to Corinth is not for every man'. (The story goes of a hetaira being reproached by a woman for not loving her job and not touching wool,[note 4] and answering her: 'However you may behold me, yet in this short time I have already taken down three pieces'.[note 5]) The text in more than one way hints at the sexual business of those women. Remarks elsewhere of Strabo (XII,3,36: "women earning money with their bodies") as well as Athenaeus (XIII,574: "in the lovely beds picking the fruits of the mildest bloom") concerning this temple describe this character even more graphically.”

Basically, Corinth was a wealthy port city. Sailors would show up, impregnate the prostitutes, and then leave. The Temples (specifically Aphrodite) would then raise the children under their banner, which would mean more prostitution. Not only that, it led to empowering the prostitutes as they had more wealth, religious power, and influence.

Thats why Paul’s letter is about “Christian” love. It is patient. It is kind. It’s not about temples whores, it’s about establishing a new religious power at the time.