ABSTRACT
The Bible, and particularly the Old Testament, contains a good many references to, and a certain amount of information about, prostitution before the advent of Christianity. In the opinion of theologians and moralists it contains too much information, and there are religious teachers, clergymen and others, who hurriedly turn over certain scandalous pages and omit certain erotic passages when reading from the Sacred Books for the edification of the young and the unsaved. As long ago as the days of Saint Jerome, the young were forbidden to have access to the Book of Ezekiel; and even to-day, divorced from their context, I have an idea that the descriptions of the whoredoms of Abolah and Aholibah would be put down by the moralists and Comstockians as rank pornography.
