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| 20 | 610 | She does not want to be View more quotes about known">known at home, in her own city, as a compromised free woman, one who in terror unworthily, disgracefully, bared her body publicly. |
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| 20 | 607 | Some women, sensitive to the fact that their modesty has now been so violently compromised, and so unworthily, as a result of mere fear, suppose then that they might as well be in a collar. |
| 20 | 608 | How many have seen their legs? Has he, the brute, or he, the monster, or he, a mere, idle, casual appraiser of her limbs, or who? And not unoften, it seems, if only to conceal their shame, they begin, as it is said, "to court the collar". |
| 20 | 609 | Better than shame is to be joyfully shameless. |
| 20 | 610 | She does not want to be known at home, in her own city, as a compromised free woman, one who in terror unworthily, disgracefully, bared her body publicly. |
| 20 | 611 | How unacceptable, how terrible, for a free woman! Better to be in an alien city, helpless, naked, kneeling, collared, at the feet of an enemy. |
| 20 | 612 | So she begins to wear her veils loosely, her robes above her ankles, to frequent lonely streets, to traverse high bridges at night, or perhaps in a slave tunic she begins to loiter about markets where women are sold, or decides to satisfy her curiosity as to the interior of a paga tavern, and see for herself what the fellows and the girls are really like there, something about which she has always been curious. |
| 20 | 613 | Needless to say, she soon needs not worry about her compromised modesty, for she is likely to soon find herself in a situation where the question of modesty does not arise, and is not even permitted to arise. |