Undercover Priestess: Secret Diary of a Whore

Part 4: Sacred Prostitution as a Religious Practice in the Mystery Religion of Love

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While Whore has become a word of degradation and insult, particularly used to defile the potency inside female sexuality, many ancient languages contain etymologies of the word whore that suggest holy origins.

In the Biblical story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis, Tamar disguises herself as a ‘zonah’—the Hebrew word for prostitute. Yet…