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Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1937
Prostitution is an awful calamity, but if humans did not have it, it would destroy them.I read all types of books, but the ones I respect the most are the ones that bring history's otherwise silent voices to life, or rescue these voices from oblivion. This book is a translation, mostly successful, of an attempted rescue of voices.
(from page 61 of the paperback version of this translation)
... Human fate is like that: we do not know what creates us, we do not know why we exist, we do not know how we will die, and the even more pernicious fact is that while we are alive, we suffer from innumerable misfortunes, but we do not know their cause. Among those many wounds, prostitution is one.