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  • In an age of abstract experience, fornication
    Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
    And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
    Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
    Are precious.

    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.16, Macmillan