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So when you see a prostitute setting snares, plotting against you, desiring your body, say to her, ' This body is not mine. It belongs to my wife. I do not dare to mistreat it nor to lend it to another woman.' The wife should do the same. Here there is complete equality.

John Chrysostom On Marriage and Family Life

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