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IV. The Present Social Attitude Towards Prostitution: The Decay of the Brothel The Tendency to the Humanization of Prostitution The Monetary Aspects of Prostitution The Geisha The Hetaira The Moral Revolt Against Prostitution Squalid Vice Based on Luxurious Virtue The Ordinary Attitude Towards Prostitutes Its Cruelty Absurd The Need of Reforming Prostitution The Need of Reforming Marriage These Two Needs Closely Correlated The Dynamic Relationships Involved.
Hayward surrounded his sordid and vulgar little adventures with a glow of poetry, and thought he touched hands with Pericles and Pheidias because to describe the object of his attentions he used the word hetaira instead of one of those, more blunt and apt, provided by the English language.
A shameless hetaira, a loathsome courtesan, whose breath brings pestilence and contagion to the inhabitants of Rome, whose existence is a blot upon the work of creation; who has been cursed by her father so many times that, if all his execrations were fulfilled, no grass would grow upon the earth where she sets her foot, and compassion itself would turn from her in abhorrence."
Yesterday they gave the 'Thals' of Menander, and I assure you that in Alexandria the woman who dared to impersonate the bewitching and cold-hearted Hetaira would have been driven off the stage they would have pelted her with rotten apples.
A storm of applause greeted its appearance; the tipsiest stammered out his approval, and the picture presented to drunken eyes was indeed a beautiful and gorgeous one. On a high platform-intended for the display of a small image of Serapis and certain symbols of the god, at great festivals Glycera, the loveliest hetaira of the town, was drawn in triumph through the temple.
Yesterday they gave the 'Thals' of Menander, and I assure you that in Alexandria the woman who dared to impersonate the bewitching and cold-hearted Hetaira would have been driven off the stage they would have pelted her with rotten apples.
An infinite number of curious and rare species may then be taken, most diversified in habits, mode of flight, colours, and markings: some yellow, others bright red, green, purple, and blue, and many bordered or spangled with metallic lines and spots of a silvery or golden lustre. Some have wings transparent as glass one of these clear wings is especially beautiful, namely, the Hetaira Esmeralda.
Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but the latter brushed him aside. “The hetaira is right,” he exclaimed. “I am not in power here. If I were, she should be lapidated.” And, preceded by the butler, Antipas passed through the parting ranks to the vestibule beyond. The perplexity of the procurator increased. He did not in the least understand.
Nikolay Parfenovitch was even a little bit “fascinated.” He admitted himself, when talking about it afterwards, that only then had he seen “how handsome the woman was,” for, though he had seen her several times before, he had always looked upon her as something of a “provincial hetaira.” “She has the manners of the best society,” he said enthusiastically, gossiping about her in a circle of ladies.
The name meant friend or companion, and the woman to whom the name was applied held an honorable position, which could not be accorded to the mere prostitute. This fact renders it more intelligible why a woman of such intellectual distinction as Aspasia should have been a hetaira. There seems little doubt as to her intellectual distinction.
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