Rome remained intact in its religious
harlotry for about 200 years.
It was rebellion against God and disloyalty to God that made the self - centered luxury of the rich, the exploitation of the poor, bribery, drunkenness, and
harlotry such evils.
Victorian views of sexuality, for example, tended to idealize women at the same time the culture was fascinated with the theme
of harlotry.
To call a former Vice President of Nigeria the «poster child for
political harlotry and master of the double cross... and that «his loyalty is for the highest bidder» goes beyond the boundary of civility.
He answered, «What peace can there be, so long as
the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?»
If a woman was suspected of «
harlotry» hen the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before the LORD, 17and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and he shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
The Old Testament often uses sexual imagery to describe how well or how poorly we are living our relationship to God (marital fidelity, nuptial joy, fertility,
harlotry, sexual defilement, and childlessness).