Who is Prostitutes from Erotism: Death & Sensuality and what is their importance? Erotism:_Death_&_Sensuality English & Literature Prostitutes | Erotism: Death & Sensuality

The author defines prostitutes as embodiments of the principle of sexual transgression, manifestations of both freedom and desire. He writes of how the commercial aspect of prostitution has, over the centuries, corrupted the essential purity of their purpose—to trigger, in men, an awareness of the potentially transcendent power of sexual experience and/or expression.