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>What is filthier, uglier, and more disgraceful than whores, procurers, and such-like plagues of humanity? Remove prostitutes from the social order, however, and lust will destroy it. Let them rise to the same status as married women and you will dishonor matrimony with an unseemly Stain. This most unchaste lifestyle, therefore, places its practitioners at the very bottom of the social order. Equally, we are repelled by the shape of some animal organs on looking at them in isolation. But the order of nature wanted them where necessary, without however giving them undue prominence. ugly as they are, they occupy their appointed place, leaving better places for better ones.
t. st augustine in de ordine
