Ruth Karras, author of Common Women: prostitution and sexuality in medieval England, discusses how some bishops ran and owned brothels in England during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. “Ecclesiastical institutions and individuals owned brothels . . . Several individual clerics also managed brothels in London and Westminster.”[4] [10] She mentions also that they were not only owners, but many were clients as well.[5] [11] Karras is not the only one to show that the clergy were clients of prostitutes. “. . . in the cases of procuration and brawling in the brothel or the bathhouse, members of the clergy are listed as present, named and given as residents of the city . . . clergy still made up twenty per cent of the clientele of the bathhouses and the private bordellos of Dijon.”[6] [12]

Not only was the Church involved in ownership, but in France during the mid thirteenth century, they accepted alms from prostitutes.[7] [13] “In accepting the prostitute’s alms, the Church recognized that she had acted out of necessity.”[8] [14] The Church supported this institution because they believed it to be a necessity. They owned and ran brothels, accepted money from prostitutes, and used Mary Magdalene as an example of a prostitute who redeemed herself by repenting. Many were tolerant of prostitutes by acknowledging them as a future Mary Magdalene.[9] [15]

The church followed the philosophy regarding prostitution as a “necessary evil” and often participated in it, since it had been justified. The medieval public followed the same philosophy. They kept and welcomed prostitution into their communities.

Professor where I found one account : http://cla.umn.edu/rmk/

. . . .In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church not only condoned prostitution, but allowed it to be run out of the monasteries and convents. The phrase, “get thee to a nunnery” had nothing to do with a convent of “nuns” but rather the “nunnery” was a brothel. The exhortation was given to young men to keep them from trying to corrupt the virgin daughters of the townspeople.

In 1254, King Louis IX of France, decreed that all prostitutes be regarded as outlaws after it was discovered that a Parisian prostitute sat next to the queen of France in Church, and the queen, as was her custom, bestowed a kiss on her.When the identity of the woman reached the ears of the king, he decided that the only way to prevent future incidents was to outlaw prostitution throughout his kingdom. . . .

“Prostitution: An Illustrated Social History ” Vern&Bonnie Bullough/ Crown Books 1978

Prostitutes were accepted in medieval society as a necessary evil to keep men hands off the virgin girls!!! Now I know the notion of virginity has become something of a foreign concept to black women but in the eighties it wasn’t. In the eighties and early nineties brothers would not sleep with a chick unless she was a virgin. Matter my true first girlfriend was a virgin. How many men who read this forum can honestly say they ever had sex with a virgin. If you haven’t let me tell you it’s a big difference in terms of the resistance you get as opposed to going all the way to a chick’s back walls? And I am not apologizing for being descriptive because we are all adults on here and if you need someone to hold your hands get off the site. First and foremost, my major fault with Chad is that he tried to honor a female of her caliber with marriage in the first place!!! This chick is noly fit for a brothel. The problem in America is that people are trying to blur the lines between a whore and a righteous woman and there is nothing to blur!!! One is worth and one is not!!! Simple. We all know what a Man’s role is but when it comes to a Woman we get all confused. Well for starters how about not being a whore and if you are gonna accept the role, then accept the consequences. When men don’t accept the responsibilities for being men they end up being bums on the street right? well same thing for a woman. However it shows what type of women who are on these sites who actually defend this train wreck chick. I don’t give a damn if he head-butted her…with all the bullying she has done and shit talking, she should be able to defend herself but once again the contradiction of the independent female rears her ugly head once again. You’re independent until you get your ass whipped and then you have to go get another man to defend you, which is ironic because you’re indefensible because if your man headbutts you then that’s all we need to know about you as a woman. There have been men in war who have kidnapped Virgin princesses from other groups of people but would not touch them without their approval because they had enough honor to know you don’t violate virgin, high-quality women. The problem with the american male is he has allowed this so-called social sciences reconfigure the image of Woman into a modern daw whore and has accepted a concubine as a wife. Most black women are whores of this generation, just like evelyn. Just listen to what toni braxton said “oral transaction.” Corporate whores. Evelyn should never be defended. Black women would you want your son to marry a woman like her from a personality perspective? i won’t say fro a beauty perspective because most of you’ll would hate on her from a beauty perspective and really not consider her one of you! My teacher who taught my African-American Male and Female relationships class at georgia state said ti best “When you talk about black people, you are talking about a sick people.” And what’s so said is the fact that, if chad had slept with some other black chick, no one is criticizing the black chick at all!!! How many black females sleep with other black women husbands? Put booty in his face and tempt him on purpose. That’s why you had codes of conduct and dress for women to keep their ass in line but when you got black women walking around with the crack of their ass showing I guess these rules are antiquated huh? The woman I am with at the present time is 48 years old. I’m 33. It took for me to get with a woman 16 years older than me to find someone who relates to me on values. She has been married twice and outside of the past four year, has spent her entire adult life as a married woman. How many of you women can say you have spent majority of your adult life as a married woman? The black woman and the white male are the only two people in america that get a free pass on abuse. When a brother does something he’s just supposed to know to do better. But let a white boy do something reprehensible, they want to find out his life story and say he need psychological help and he avoids jail time. When a black chick does dome shit, now you got people going into her background making excuses for her being a bully. Which one is it? Either you’re responsible or you’re crazy Can’t be both. American culture is vulgar and black women are at the top of the scrap heap in terms representing the worse of it. That’s just truth. Say what you’ll want about Beck but at least Becky knows when to turn off the hoe meter. She might slut it out in college for a minute but she knows at the end of the day that’s not a recipe for a bright future. You got black women going to strip clubs throwing money on other chicks! Lol

You’re right bruh. Sometimes my righteous indignation gets stirred up and I can’t keep silent. My man Sankofa warned me about going back and forth with certain types on this site. You can be making all the sense in the world, and they’ll come with something totally silly and borderline retarded. Lol

I just want to see my sisters drop the excuses and come get on the ball. It’s time out for deflection and time for introspection.

i agree that evelyn was a bully and she used threats on the show, but after reading up her, i found out things that may have led to her being the way she was. maybe not a good enough excuse, but it is what it is none-the-less. she admitted her mistakes and the things she’s done, including her behavior with jennifer. honestly, i don’t think she cares what you think about her, or anyone else for that matter.

you say you don’t want to hate on her, but that’s exactly what you’ve done by writing this piece, i’d say you’ve accomplished what you set out to do.

i believe her last name is lozada, not lozanda.

Latino isn’t a race. It’s a culture. And Eve is as black as most Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, whether they claim ‘black’ or not. The average so-called Latino is part black, part Amerindian, and part Spanish. And if you’re really a student of history you’ll know that the Spanish have a lot of black already mixed into their bloodline, thanks to the Moors who conquered and occupied Spain for hundreds of years.