Sentences with phrase «contracting venereal»

Picasso thought of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as not just his first cubist painting but also as his first exorcism painting, intended to exorcise his fears of contracting venereal disease in brothels.

Not exact matches

Paul assumes that venereal disease is the divine punishment for homosexual behavior; we know it as a risk involved in promiscuity of every stripe, but would hesitate to label it a divine punishment, since not everyone who is promiscuous contracts it.
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