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cause the want of modesty and humility in such case,

became want of public as well as private decency,
because jealousy on the part of the wife, was thus de
prived of the causes of excitement —But, no doubt,
some of the same ill effects existed.
I have thus further illustrated the nature of sexual
love—I doubt whether polygamy and concubinage

all
ever ministered sufficiently to the variety which

it
licentiously demands.
That courtezanism, which minister,

so
both

is
does
unsatisfactory and vicious, however inevitable under
indissoluble marriage, will now appear.
Grecian times, Asia, then deemed the mother
In

of
voluptuousness, produced the courtezans whose arts
and occupations met with no check restraint from or
the laxity fonian morals, and were even promoted
of

of by

and encouraged the corruptions reli

of

the ancient
gion. Asia, tem
In

of

the Greek colonies

most
ples were erected the earthly Venus; where cour
to

tezans were not merely tolerated, but honoured, as

that divinity.
of

priestesses
The wealthy and commercial city
of

Corinth first
imported that practice from the East; and,
as

there
Venus, where the readiest meth
of

temple
in

was
it
a
od

gaining the goddess's favour, was

of

present her
to

with beautiful damsels, who from that time were main

the temple and prostituted themselves for
in

tained
hire, Corinth became remarkable for being nursery
a
of

courtezans; thousand being

at

more than one

a

time consecrated the goddess.

to

The inhabitants of Corinth are indeed said have

to
of

attached great importance this kind celebrity,

to

and purchased, the neighbouring countries, and es

in