@TheodoreAnan It's exactly because prostitution is around for thousands of years, that we know it's a good thing. As long, as with many things, it's done with responsibility.
I agree with you that it's not and old way of thinking that it's bad. Just comes with cultures and religion. And ideologies.
Well, Jirou was basically "asking" for Akari to confess. Which is why it's not that odd for Akari to back down because you're putting people on a pedestal that way with a higher mental obstacle.
Was the virgin Mary really written in Chinese or was that the translator's input?
Because it felt a little out of place between the Chinese myths, and christianity hasn't been mentioned at all in the story either.