Tertullian

“ But how much more provocative of blasphemy is it that you, who are called modesty’s priestesses, should appear in public decked and painted out after the manner of the immodest? Else, (if you so do,) what inferiority would the poor unhappy victims of the public lusts have (beneath you) ? whom, albeit some laws were (formerly) wont to restrain them from (the use of) matrimonial and matronly decorations, now, at all events, the daily increasing depravity of the age [1] has raised so nearly to an equality with all the most honourable women, that the difficulty is to distinguish them. ”

“ And yet, even the Scriptures suggest (to us the reflection) , that meretricious attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined with and appropriate [2] to bodily prostitution. That powerful state [3] which presides over [4] the seven mountains and very many waters, has merited from the Lord the appellation of a prostitute. [5] But what kind of garb is the instrumental mean of her comparison with that appellation? ”