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Single Idea 18554

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality]

Full Idea

The condemnation of prostitution was not just puritan bigotry; it was a recognition of a profound truth, that you and your body are not two things but one, and by selling the body you harden your soul.

Gist of Idea

Prostitution is wrong because it hardens the soul, since soul and body are one

Source

Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 7)

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.137


A Reaction

No one, I imagine, who condones or even enthuses about prostitution would hope that their own daughter followed the profession, so there is something wrong with it. But must an enthusiastic and cheerful prostitute necessarily have a hard soul?