英语听力：探索发现 2014-03-28 Sex for Sale -5
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Water cooler lowdown1. A fair of prostitutes say St.Thomas Acquinas was quite famous for saying Give me chastity just not yet. He wasn't alone.
2. 20 percent of
clergy1 regularly enjoyed a church brothel visit.
3. But prostitutes weren't just getting lucky with the clergy. They were also used as models for painting angels and
saints2 in religious art. Providing a valuable service that guaranteed a sizable profit, even the
Catholic3 church couldn't deny the value of sex for sale.
The sex business wasn't always so controversial. In ancient Rome, prostitution was legal. Though paying for sex was common, the story behind Theodora, one of Constantinople's most famous prostitutes, is anything but ordinary.
In the early Middle Ages, Rome was in
decline4 and with no longer the place that all the roads led to. The place was to be with Constantinople, the new seat of the Eastern Rome Empire, otherwise konwn as the Byzantium Empire.
-It was the crossroads of the world, and you could get any sort of
fabrics5 and spices and drugs and anything that your heart desired.
One thing that was always for selling in Constantinople was sex.
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